I felt you needed to see this

[shalafi@lemmy.world]

Well. TIL.

[viking_hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

You just keep learning about hedgehogs! At this rate you'll be a bonafide expert by 60!

[zwiebel@feddit.org]

We got these lil guys scurrying around our backyards

In return you have Opossums though

[pseudo@jlai.lu]

This is the ugliest one I have ever seen.

[jizzmasterd@lemmy.ca]

Hoggin’ ain’t easy

[heythisisnttheymca@lemmy.world]

be nice. theres a rodent on the other side of that photo

[bob_robertson_ix@discuss.tchncs.de]

I used to have a couple of hedgehogs as pets when I was younger and when I got my own place I decided to just let them run free in my apartment. It was so amazing to be chilling on the couch, watching TV and then a hedgehog scurries past.

I'm not generally for invasive species, but when I see huge murmurations of starlings this time of year I have a hard time being mad at them... I think I'd feel the same way if hedgehogs were introduced in the US.

[obviouslynotbanana@piefed.world]

I have one living somewhere around the corner of my building here in Sweden. Though the population is shrinking sadly. They're very cute.

[alltorulethemone@lemmy.world]

Not a shitpost at all.

[pseudo@jlai.lu]

Are they rodent though?

[canadiancarl@sh.itjust.works]

Hedgehogs belong to the order Eulipotyphla, which includes shrews and moles, while rodents are in the order Rodentia and are characterized by their perpetually growing incisors.

[pseudo@jlai.lu]

Funny because I would have called a mole a rodent.

[canadiancarl@sh.itjust.works]

North America has the porcupine, also.

[zwiebel@feddit.org]

They're adorable too!

[zwiebel@feddit.org]

Fun fact: Healthy rodent teeth are yellow. White teeth are a sign of malnutricion

[canadiancarl@sh.itjust.works]

I know, just from pictures of beavers.