African Pygmy (Four-toed) Hedgehog

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African Pygmy (Four-toed) Hedgehog
Woodland Zoo
Animal Fact Sheets
Seattle, WA

Habitat
Their habitats vary from forest to desert, but none of the members of the hedgehog family live in the arctic, or in areas where the ground regularly becomes saturated. Atelerix albiventris lives in semiarid areas and dry savannas.

Diet
In the wild: African pygmy hedgehogs eat worms, snails, arthropods, frogs, lizards, snakes, eggs, nestling birds, small mammals and carrion. They also eat fruits, seeds, peanuts, fungi and roots. They consume food amounting to about 1/3 of their body weight per night.

At the zoo: They are fed cat food, chopped fruit and mealworms

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