The lanky gibbon is known for its superb mastery of tree swinging, but how does it react to a simple hedgehog? Watch and see ...

The humble hedgehog spends its days snuffling through leaves and vegetation, looking for insects to eat. Slugs, snails and earthworms are their favourite, but they will also eat eggs, vertebrates ...

Hedgehogs primarily eat macro invertebrates (the bigger bugs and insects), but if you analyse their faeces, you’ll see they eat “all sorts of things,” says Hugh Warwick. “I’ve collected ...

When someone says hedgehog, what do you think of? Prickles and Sonic probably spring to mind. But there’s a lot more to these cute creatures than their quills. So Young Post spoke to Dr Michael ...

A scheme to eradicate European Hedgehog from a series of islands in the Outer Hebrides is set to begin. Saving Uist Nature ...

Fifty years ago hedgehogs were reportedly let go into a garden in South Uist in the hope they would eat slugs and snails. But numbers multiplied - and they were soon preying on more than garden pests.