Forget Punxsutawney Phil. Did Nancy the pygmy hedgehog see her shadow at the Oregon Zoo?
A coast away, Punxsutawney Phil emerged today with a prediction: early spring.
At the Oregon Zoo, a groundhog-free zoo, curators turned to a far more adorable prognosticator: Nancy the African pygmy hedgehog.
The zoo claims a 50 percent accuracy rate for its hedgehog predictions, besting Phil’s 39 percent accuracy rate. Last year, a hedgehog named FuFu predicted an early spring that did not arrive.