The History of the Hedgehog

[dang]

Url changed from https://thebrowser.com/articles/the-history-of-the-hedgehog/, which is dead.

[pvg]

Unedited source, with a date: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmhansrd/c...

[adam-a]

And the video, for those who are interested. http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/2fed57d5-68f3-4867-bdfa...

[ZenoArrow]

> "This strange animal was known, of course, in Scotland, Wales and Ireland originally in Gaelic as that demonic creature, that horrid creature, and is the hedgehog celebrated by Shakespeare:

“Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen… Come not near our faerie queen”,"

It surprises me that they were ever seen that way. They weren't natural predators for any human livestock, and speaking purely unscientifically I'd say they're pretty cute...

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hedgehog&source=lnms&tbm=i...

[art0rz]

IIRC* the hedgehogs from your search results are African hedgehogs and are commonly kept as pets (because they are just so adorable, I agree). The European hedgehog is larger, can be quite vicious and AFAIK often carry rabies.

* my ex-girlfriend had one of these as a pet

[robmil]

Rory Stewart, the speaker here, is a slightly unconventional politician, having in 2002 walked across Afghanistan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Stewart

[hias]

No Sonic? :-(

[anon4]

I too sort of expected an artice on the video game mascot, but this is pretty interesting too.