Hedgehogs
Created | Updated Mar 23, 2002
Hedgehogs are most curious creatures, and apparently only live in the UK. If this is due to
a partiality to tea, warm lager, fish and chips, yorkshire puddings, or other british food fayre
is not apparent (as they do live on our cast offs which whilst nasty I would prefer to their
natural diet of small grubs and insects). Perhaps they just like the weather.
For the uninitiated the hedgehog is a small creature about as long as your hand. Its back is
covered with spines. Not though the kind of nasty echidna or porcupine spines, more like
the bristles on a coarse broom.
When attacked they curl themselves into a ball. This has two advantages:
1) the attacker can't get in.
2) the attacker will usually push the hedgehog, which will then roll away, providing escape
and exactly the sort of thrills and spills that theme park customers pay good money for.
