Creating log piles may help to attract hedgehogs, and rockeries may attract frogs, newts and toads who usually spend winter on land. |
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They also sometimes roost in the burrows of other mammals such as hedgehogs, porcupines, and aardvarks. |
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Bonfires can be fatal for wildlife such as hedgehogs, which often crawl in them to sleep. |
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Much of UK wildlife is dependent on invertebrates for food including many mammals, such as wood mice, bats and hedgehogs. |
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Several species of ground-nesting birds including lapwing, redshank and ringed plover have come under threat from hedgehogs. |
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The island refuges of some species are also under threat from imported mammals such as rats and hedgehogs. |
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Small, spiny, pointy-nosed creatures known as tenrecs are the equivalents of shrews, moles and hedgehogs. |
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We want to make sure the release sites have no slug pellets, dogs, badger sets or ponds which the hedgehogs could fall into. |
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The hedgehogs will be caught in specially baited traps before being put to sleep with gas and then killed by lethal injection. |
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Suburban householders report large numbers of hedgehogs, voles, shrews, dormice and hares. |
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We deal with everything from the smallest white-eye to a black vulture, from hedgehogs to jackals. |
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Both hedgehogs and moonrats are geared strictly for eating insects and other small invertebrates, especially earthworms. |
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Working together to imagine what hedgehogs, newts, and blindworms look like, the children can then create movements and sounds for each creature. |
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Ground and rove beetles, centipedes, frogs and toads, slow-worms, hedgehogs and many species of birds all eat significant numbers of slugs. |
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He has taken photographs of hedgehogs and grey squirrels, the latter coming running when they are called. |
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Improved road design could mean fewer squashed hedgehogs and other mammal casualties, according to experts. |
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Many species of hedgehogs can roll up into a ball, hiding all vulnerable areas of the body under the protective spines. |
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Animals co-habiting in the woods include field mice, grey squirrels, hedgehogs and three roe deer. |
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The public is being asked to survey kingfishers, skylarks, water voles and hedgehogs so that as much information as possible can be gathered. |
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Molluscs, barnacles, mussels, oysters, tortoises, hedgehogs, armadillos, porcupines, rhinos all grow their own. |
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The waders, curlews, plovers and lapwing were there long before the hedgehogs were introduced. |
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Now that the weather is encouraging gardeners to get out and start cutting and digging, hedgehogs are in danger. |
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Baby hedgehogs are born with short, soft spines that don't harden for several weeks, and baby humans cannot walk on their own for the first couple of years. |
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Belonging to the same family as hedgehogs and gymnures, the Dinagat moonrat has stiff bristly or spiny fur on its back, which is generally golden brown with black speckling. |
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The hedgehogs are being culled humanely and for a good reason. |
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Unfortunately, hedgehogs are nomadic and difficult to attract into a garden, but a pile of logs and dense native hedging will give them somewhere to hide. |
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She stands on a tree stump with two gnomes, four fairies, a raven, an owl, two hares, a rooster, squirrels, rabbits, mice, hedgehogs, toads and a fox. |
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There were lots of snakelike creatures, some roundish things as prickly as hedgehogs and some notable beaks and pincers as well as possibly a stinger or two. |
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All the family can find out about hedgehogs and help make hedgehog boxes. |
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This work shows that five marsupials, two hedgehogs, a shrew, a mole, four mongoose, a raccoon, two mtistelids, and 15 rodents have some form of resistance to venom toxins. |
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After a storm of protest, the conservation group agreed to talk to animal welfare groups to see if there was a way to save both hedgehogs and birds. |
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Animal welfare experts now fear Scottish wildlife such as deer, hedgehogs and frogs could also suffer as their young are killed off in the freezing temperatures. |
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Not only does the noise go on for hours but these infernal machines kill or maim thousands of hedgehogs, frogs and fledglings every spring and summer. |
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Mongooses, hedgehogs and tortoises, live happily at the koppies. |
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Many fossorial mammals were classified under the, now obsolete, order Insectivora, such as shrews, hedgehogs and moles. |
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The category included black bears, hedgehogs, and raccoon dogs native to Asia. |
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The zoo also received savannah and desert monitors, Brandt's hedgehogs, black swans, jackals, sika deers and Barbary sheep. |
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Lapwings, redshanks and ringed plovers have all come under threat from the hedgehogs which eat their eggs. |
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Exotic Pets Wholesale occasionally has available hedgehogs and sugar gliders. |
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Populations of dunlin, lapwing and ringed plovers have dropped by 60 per cent after the hedgehogs developed a taste for their eggs. |
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The dry, tussocky crowns of pampas are another favoured site for hibernating hedgehogs. |
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Today, mammals of note include shrews, voles, badgers, otters, hedgehogs and fifteen species of bat. |
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There are hedgehogs with sultanas as well as breadcrumbs, carrot cakes and fruitcakes and banana walnut loaves. |
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Live flamingos are used as mallets and hedgehogs as balls, and Alice once again meets the Cheshire Cat. |
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Denmark is also home to smaller mammals, such as polecats, hares and hedgehogs. |
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European hedgehogs eat the eggs of nesting seabirds where they have been introduced. |
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Some species only rarely preyed upon by the polecat include European hedgehogs, asp vipers, grass snakes and insects. |
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The hedgehogs are easily recognised by their spines while gymnures look more like large rats. |
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European hedgehogs may live to ten years of age, although the average life expectancy is three years. |
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However, hedgehogs tend to be absent from areas where badgers are numerous. |
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Colonists took hedgehogs from England and Scotland to New Zealand on sailing ships from the 1860s to the 1890s mainly for sentimental reasons. |
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Most New Zealanders welcome hedgehogs in their gardens as they relish slugs and snails. |
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It is illegal to capture or hurt them, but it is accepted to house underweight hedgehogs found out during winter. |
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When Ankylodon was first described in 1937, it was placed within the Erinaceidae, the family containing hedgehogs, and only the type species, Ankylodon annectens, was named. |
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It will see the end of a TV tradition which has featured characters including Tufty the squirrel, the Green Cross Man, cartoon hedgehogs and even Dr Who. |
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In addition to many birds, she has spied two hedgehogs in the borders and Roland, the resident tree rat, is a regular in the towering Washingtonia. |
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It's not that games have necessarily been homophobi-it's just hard to really promote any sexuality when most of your heroes have been hedgehogs, electric mice, and bandicoots. |
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With its milder winters, New Zealand hedgehogs hibernate for only three months of the year so do not need to put on so much weight in autumn as their ancestors. |
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In northern New Zealand, many hedgehogs do not hibernate at all. |
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Other small mammals, such as rabbits, foxes, badgers, hares, hedgehogs, and stoats, are very common and the European beaver has been reintroduced in parts of Scotland. |
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Given this figure, and more firmly established rates of decline, it is now thought likely that there are approximately 50080 hedgehogs left in Great Britain. |
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Earthworms are their most important food source, followed by large insects, carrion, cereals, fruit and small mammals including rabbits, mice, shrews, moles and hedgehogs. |
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There has been considerable controversy over hedgehogs on the Uists. |
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By the 1950s, hedgehogs could be found over the whole country with the exception of the coldest wettest corner of the South Island and alpine areas of permanent snow. |
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Nevertheless, hedgehogs have been seen climbing New Zealand glaciers. |
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