Product Description
Our Plastic Hedgehog Our miniature plastic hedgehog toy or replica is only 1 1/2 inches long. It makes acute collectible for hedgehog lovers or collectors of animals from the British Isles. It is made of solid plastic and is quite durable despite its small size. Use it for a diorama or place it on a shelf where you can admire and enjoy its adorable little face! See our other hedgehog toys and gifts along with all of our other mammals. Many of our plastic animals come in miniature sizes suitable for school projects such as dioramas.
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.