The European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) has a natural defense that has served it well for millennia: it rolls into a ...

African pygmy hedgehogs have grown popular over the years, especially with how often they show up online. But there’s more ...

"We discovered, to my great surprise and joy, that hedgehogs can hear up to 85kHz" Rasmussen said. Humans can hear up to ...

A sound too high for you to hear may one day help keep hedgehogs off the road. That possibility comes from a new study in ...

Scientists found hedgehogs hear ultrasound, raising hopes for repellents to reduce road deaths. Researchers at the University of Oxford suggest that ultrasonic repellers could help lower the number of ...

Road traffic accidents kill up to one in three hedgehogs in local populations. It’s not easy to deter hedgehogs from venturing on dangerous roads, but their hearing could be surprisingly useful. In a ...

The team is looking for volunteer collaborators within the car industry who could spare the funds to finance a prototype repellant device.

Scientists discover hedgehogs hear ultrasound, opening the possibility of warning sounds that keep them away from roads.

These are sad and bad days for the hedgehog. Nobody knows, for sure, very much about them - how many there are, where they are, how many are needed for a viable population, how they cope with modern ...

HEDGEHOGS are omnivores, which means they can eat all types of food. But they are greedy creatures and will scoff pretty much anything you put out for them, so you ...