"Hedg"Etymology
A baby hedgehog is also known as a "______". 6-letter phrase
What is (a) hoglet?
The __ (amount) species of hedgehog are found across Europe, Africa and Asia.
What is 17?
Hedgehogs are ________, which means that they are most active at night.
What is nocturnal?
A hedgehog's length is comprised of approximately _-_cm of tail.
What is 2-5cm?
This fictional blue hedgehog of animated TV & movie fame is well-known for his ability to run very fast.
Who is Sonic (the hedgehog)?
Hedgehogs are also known as hedge___, due to their similarity to these large mammals often found on farms.
What are hedgepigs?
There are no hedgehogs native to this continent.
What is Australia, (or the Americas)?
Hedgehogs are known as ____________, which means their diets include bugs such as worms, snails, and other insects as well as small reptiles, amphibians, roots, berries, mushrooms, and more.
What are omnivores? (Also acceptable: insectivores)
A ______, or leucistic hedgehog, has a coat of lightly colored spines.
What is blonde?
This desert-dwelling Pokemon is heavily inspired by real-life hedgehogs, despite its name sounding more like that of a hedgehog-relative.
Who is Sandshrew?
Usage of the term hedgehog came into use around this year
When is 1450?
Hedgehogs are in the Class of Mammalia, Order of Eulipotyphla and the Family of what - which is shared with rats of a celestial nomenclature.
What is Erinaceidae?
(Formerly Erinaceomorpha)
What is cow's milk?
The European Hedgehog has about this many spines on its back.
What is 6000-7000?
This hard-working Beatrix Potter character runs a laundry business.
Who is Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle?
Similar to satellites, a group of hedgehogs is know as an _____.
What is an array?
Hedgehogs are distantly related to these small mole-like animals.
What is a shrew/shrews?
This behavior, called "____-_______" is when a 'hog coats their spines in a substance, such as saliva.
What is anting, anointing, or self-anointing?
Hedgehogs have some immunity to ________.
What is snake venom?
Durry Quill is one of the hedgehog characters in this book series written by Brian Jacques which tells about the inhabitants of Mossflower.
What is Redwall?
Hedgehogs' current name originally came from the term heyghoge, of _____ ______, this 15th century form of the English language.
What is Middle English?
The Romans domesticated this species of hedgehog in the 4th century.
What is North African, or Algerian?
When hedgehogs hibernate, their body temperature drops down to this amount.
What is 36–41 °F?
(2–5 °C)
Hedgehogs can suffer from a rare condition known as balloon syndrome or ballooning, when ___ gets trapped under their skin.
What is air?
This hedgehog shares a name with a small and pink Winnie the Pooh character, or the young of a sow.
Who is, Piglet?