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Hedgehogs preparing for winter
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Hedgehog under maple.
Having spent the summer without a nest, the hedgehog now in autumn again prepares a nest place, for the winter sleep. It doesn’t collect food for storage, the layer of fat under the skin must be enough to live on until March-April.
Now the hedgehog still eats whatever it finds, it looks quite round, and different from spring when it is thin from winter. Since the common hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) likes living near people it is a good thing to leave a heap of leaves in a corner of the garden, so it has some material for bedding.
In the southern areas of Estonia another hedgehog species can be seen, the Eastern European hedgehog (Erinaceus concolor), whose face – unlike the common hedgehog’s - is wholly blackish.
Now the hedgehog still eats whatever it finds, it looks quite round, and different from spring when it is thin from winter. Since the common hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) likes living near people it is a good thing to leave a heap of leaves in a corner of the garden, so it has some material for bedding.
In the southern areas of Estonia another hedgehog species can be seen, the Eastern European hedgehog (Erinaceus concolor), whose face – unlike the common hedgehog’s - is wholly blackish.
