Though they may seem exotic to most people in the Americas, wild hedgehogs are quite common in much of the rest of the world. The tiny creatures are usually nocturnal and use their spiky exteriors to protect themselves. Each hedgehog has about 6,000 quills, but the quills aren"t poisonous and don"t easily detach, like those of the also-quilled (but completely unrelated) porcupine.
Sleep tight, little hedgehog
Today in History
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World Rhinoceros Day
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The birthplace of Cinco de Mayo
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Monarch butterflies in Angangueo, Mexico
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Find a Rainbow Day
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Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
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World Water Day
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Make your way up a picturesque passageway of Chefchaouen
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World Wildlife Day
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Albion Falls, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Southern lights for Antarctica Day
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Astronomy Day
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A sea of swirling stone
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A big birthday for Big Bend
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World Rainforest Day
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The ruins of Italica, Andalusia, Spain
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Water colors
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Mardi Gras flower power
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Red fox, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
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Palouse farmland, Washington state
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Point Reyes National Seashore, California
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The Feathers at Frenchman Coulee near Vantage, Washington
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Taking the forest to the cloud
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Earth Day
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Humpbacks return to the Inside Passage
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In honor of those we ve lost
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The Zugspitze: Germany s highest point
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Winter in Old Nuuk
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Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California
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Fall comes to the Last Frontier
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Old man s whiskers growing wild
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