Animal campaigners say they should not be kept as pets. But what do pygmy hedgehog owners say? "They're adorable balls of love," says Emma Crossan. She owns 11 African pygmy hedgehogs and hoglets ...

When someone says hedgehog, what do you think of? Prickles and Sonic probably spring to mind. But there’s a lot more to these cute creatures than their quills. So Young Post spoke to Dr Michael ...

If you have them as pets, it is important to provide them with the correct living conditions and diet to keep them from becoming fat. The most common type kept is the African Pygmy Hedgehog.

Unfortunately, a lot of what people leave out for them isn’t healthy or safe for them to eat. In the U.S., pet African pygmy ...

Each species has unique traits, such as the small size of the African pygmy hedgehog, popular as a pet, and the larger European hedgehog, known for its resilience in the wild. Hedgehog spines ...

A vampire hedgehog, a pygmy pipehorse ... they would not be able to spot the tiny pygmy pipehorse — about the size of a golf tee. "South African reefs present notoriously difficult diving ...