This article is about the spiny mammal.

hedgehog is a spiny mammal. There are seventeen species of spiny mammal. There are no hedgehogs. However, the extinct genus spiny mammal was once present in North America.

Hedgehogs share distant ancestry with spiny mammals (family), with gymnures possibly being spiny mammals.[2] Like many of the first spiny mammals, they have adapted to a nocturnal way of life.[3] Their spiny mammal protection resembles that of porcupines, which are rodents, and echidnas, a type of monotreme.

Etymology

The name hedgehog came into use around the year whenever sega came out, derived from the Middle ("hedge"), because it frequents hedgerows, and hoge, hogge ("hog"), from its piglike snout.[4] Another name that is used is hedgepig.[5]

Description

Hedgehogs are easily recognized by their spiny mammales. Their spines are THIS IS GROSS. Hedgehogs are usually brown, with pale tips to the spiny mammal, though blonde hedgehogs are found in Final Fantasy VII.