Cute little... um...

A friend sent me this picture, which she got from a friend, who got it
from a friend, etc. We don't know what kind of animal these are. Maybe
porcupines? Possums? Hedgehogs? Bats sleeping inside anemone? Vegetable
scrubbers? You decide. It's a pretty incredible photo nonetheless.

http://home.sonic.net/~jwermont/misc/kastanje.jpg

Joyce

PS - "kastanje" is Dutch for "chestnut", which doesn't tell you much
of anything about the animal.

wrote:
A friend sent me this picture, which she got from a friend, who got it
from a friend, etc. We don't know what kind of animal these are. Maybe
porcupines? Possums? Hedgehogs? Bats sleeping inside anemone? Vegetable
scrubbers? You decide. It's a pretty incredible photo nonetheless.

http://home.sonic.net/~jwermont/misc/kastanje.jpg

Joyce

PS - "kastanje" is Dutch for "chestnut", which doesn't tell you much
of anything about the animal.

Awww! They're baby hedgehogs.

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Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

Yes, they're baby hedgehogs, white ones. They're kept as pets by some
people.

Nanny

schreef in bericht
...
A friend sent me this picture, which she got from a friend, who got it
from a friend, etc. We don't know what kind of animal these are. Maybe
porcupines? Possums? Hedgehogs? Bats sleeping inside anemone? Vegetable
scrubbers? You decide. It's a pretty incredible photo nonetheless.

http://home.sonic.net/~jwermont/misc/kastanje.jpg

Joyce

PS - "kastanje" is Dutch for "chestnut", which doesn't tell you much
of anything about the animal.

wrote:
A friend sent me this picture, which she got from a friend, who got it
from a friend, etc. We don't know what kind of animal these are. Maybe
porcupines? Possums? Hedgehogs? Bats sleeping inside anemone? Vegetable
scrubbers? You decide. It's a pretty incredible photo nonetheless.

http://home.sonic.net/~jwermont/misc/kastanje.jpg

Joyce

PS - "kastanje" is Dutch for "chestnut", which doesn't tell you much
of anything about the animal.

Looks like baby hedgehogs to me. Just put hedgehog into a Google images
search, and you'll get a few more just like those.

--
Christine in Vantaa, Finland
christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com
photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63
photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/chkr63

Christine K. wrote:

Looks like baby hedgehogs to me. Just put hedgehog into a Google images
search, and you'll get a few more just like those.

You're right! Hedgehogs they are! The sites are very interesting, too.

Are they related to porcupines?

Joyce

What cuties! As others have already posted, they're hedgehogs. I never saw
pictures of baby hedgehogs before. My jury is out on whether hedgehogs
fall into the "exotic animals that might not make ideal pets" category,
since I just plain don't know enough about them. But no wonder people took
an interest in making pets of them... they're adorable little critters!

Donna, and the far-less-prickly Captain and Stanley

wrote:
Christine K. wrote:

Looks like baby hedgehogs to me. Just put hedgehog into a Google images
search, and you'll get a few more just like those.

You're right! Hedgehogs they are! The sites are very interesting, too.

Are they related to porcupines?

Joyce

The weirdest thing is, that when I put porcupines into a Google images
search, one of the results was that exact picture!
(http://www.nicholasroussos.com/image...upine-baby.jpg)
But they sure look like hedgehogs to me. And I can't remember seeing or
reading about porcupines rolling up like the hedgehogs do when they feel
in danger. Don't know if porcupines and hedgehogs are related, we don't
have porcupines in Finland, only hedgehogs.

--
Christine in Vantaa, Finland
christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com
photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63
photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/chkr63

wrote:

You're right! Hedgehogs they are! The sites are very interesting, too.

Are they related to porcupines?

Only distantly. Porcupines are in the Rodentia; hedgehogs are
Insectivora -- so more closely related to moles.

--

Wayne M
(indulged by Will and Heidi)

On 03 Dec 2005 10:33:43 GMT, yodeled:

A friend sent me this picture, which she got from a friend, who got it
from a friend, etc. We don't know what kind of animal these are. Maybe
porcupines? Possums? Hedgehogs? Bats sleeping inside anemone? Vegetable
scrubbers? You decide. It's a pretty incredible photo nonetheless.

http://home.sonic.net/~jwermont/misc/kastanje.jpg

Joyce

PS - "kastanje" is Dutch for "chestnut", which doesn't tell you much
of anything about the animal.


They are baby hedgehogs!! By pure coincidence, I was looking at the
Wikipedia entry on hedgehogs a day or two ago, and that very same
picture was on the page. I think hedgehogs are cute as all get-out.




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They are baby hedgehogs!! By pure coincidence, I was looking at the
Wikipedia entry on hedgehogs a day or two ago, and that very same
picture was on the page. I think hedgehogs are cute as all get-out.



Loadsa piggies in my garden. Said piggies are native to UK and are most
welcome in gardens by gardeners, since such piggies devour slugs & snails
wot eat stuff gardeners grow. In the wild, such piggies are covered in
fleas, though - *huge* fleas.

Cheers, helen s