Hedgehogs are under threat due to habitat loss from changes in farming. They eat insects, slugs, small animals and fruit. Their quills and ability to roll into a ball protect them from predators. Chemicals used in farming and gardens also threaten hedgehogs by killing their food sources and potentially poisoning them.

1. Hedgehogs .Hedgehogs prey are
birds ferrets foxes wolves and
mongoose.
Food
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2. Hedgehogs eat insects slugs
baby mice frogs fish worms
small snakes eggs and even
fruit. Thehedgehog is one of
the most most recognised of
British mammals yet they are
steadily disappearing from
the wild.
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Hedgehogs bodys are covered with 5000 to
6500 quills. Researches believe that self-
anointing can provide camouflage by blending
with the secret in the area that hedeghogs
inhabitats.
This Photo by Unknown author is licensed under CC
BY-SA.

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Threats: The biggest threat to hedgehogs is
probably habitat loss, with the change from
pastoral farming to arable crops, over the last
30 years. The use of chemicals in gardens
and for intensive farming kills the
creatures hedgehogs need for food and may
also poison them directly.

6. Hedgehogs cover them selves with scent and this confuses
their predictors. Hedgehogs spines and quills protect them
by rolling into a ball. It protects them by a predator because
if one of them come over they wouldn’t want to eat a ball of
spikes.
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