Hedgehog natural habitat: wild ecology of the African pygmy hedgehog and what it means for captive care
The African pygmy hedgehog (Atelerix albiventris) is a nocturnal, solitary insectivore native to the warm, semi-arid savanna belt of sub-Saharan Africa. Wild populations range from Senegal east to Kenya and south to Mozambique, inhabiting dry grassland, scrubby woodland edges, and farmland margins where nightly temperatures rarely dip below the mid-60s Fahrenheit. Every critical captive-care requirement, … Read more