<P> A hedgehog is any of the spiny mammals of the subfamily Erinaceinae , in the eulipotyphlan family Erinaceidae . There are seventeen species of hedgehog in five genera , found through parts of Europe , Asia , and Africa , and in New Zealand by introduction . There are no hedgehogs native to Australia , and no living species native to the Americas ( the extinct genus Amphechinus was once present in North America ) . Hedgehogs share distant ancestry with shrews ( family Soricidae ) , with gymnures possibly being the intermediate link , and have changed little over the last 15 million years . Like many of the first mammals , they have adapted to a nocturnal way of life . Hedgehogs ' spiny protection resembles that of the unrelated porcupines , which are rodents , and echidnas , a type of monotreme . </P>
<P> A hedgehog is any of the spiny mammals of the subfamily Erinaceinae , in the eulipotyphlan family Erinaceidae . There are seventeen species of hedgehog in five genera , found through parts of Europe , Asia , and Africa , and in New Zealand by introduction . There are no hedgehogs native to Australia , and no living species native to the Americas ( the extinct genus Amphechinus was once present in North America ) . Hedgehogs share distant ancestry with shrews ( family Soricidae ) , with gymnures possibly being the intermediate link , and have changed little over the last 15 million years . Like many of the first mammals , they have adapted to a nocturnal way of life . Hedgehogs ' spiny protection resembles that of the unrelated porcupines , which are rodents , and echidnas , a type of monotreme . </P>
where do hedge hogs live in the wild
where do hedge hogs live in the wild
through parts of Europe , Asia , and Africa , and in New Zealand
through parts of Europe , Asia , and Africa , and in New Zealand