Until I saw a picture of newly born porcupines, I never thought about how they could be born with bristles. Ways to get rid of their smell was about the only thing I gathered from a movie about the spiky animals. While the first two chapters tell us about the ways of hedgehogs, the drama does not start until the third chapter where the hedgehogs are about to be shunned as bird population destroyers. Having heard calls of stilts at the sight of feral cats, I can imagine the havoc created by people about hedgehogs as culprit. The author with his radio tracking for previous study, paint blotting for identification and counting saved them from the fate of dangers of rounding up by a factor of 10.
It is interesting to note that different rules apply to three legged animals released back into the wild after rehabilitation based on the role of the foot in feeding and keeping clean.
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