He ambles along like a walking pincushion,
Stops and curls up like a chestnut burr.
He's not worried because he's so little.
Nobody is going to slap him around.
ninth-century Chinese poet Chu Chen Pu
Apparently, nobody has. Hedgehogs, we have discovered from the fossil record and from reconstructions of their family tree, have been around since the late Cretaceous. They survived not only the extinction that wiped out the large dinosaurs but also later catastrophes that killed off great numbers of other mammals.
Smiles and I have one living in my garden!
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