7 facts about hedgehogs

1. They eat about 200g of food a night
2. A foraging hedgehog may travel 3 km within a home range of 24 ha in a single evening
3. There are about 5,000 to 6,500 quills on the average hedgehog
4. There are no hedgehogs native to Australia or North America
5. When the animal encounters a new scent, it will lick and bite the source, then form a scented froth in its mouth and paste it on its spines with its tongue.
6. Hedgehog fleas are host specific. They can only live on hedgehogs, they are harmless to humans and domestic pets, and cannot live in your carpet or furniture like other fleas
7. At the time of blogging, St Tiggywinkles Animal Hospital, in Haddenham, Bucks is treating 287 hedgehogs for a variety of injuries and ailments