African Pygmy Hedgehogs are solitary and nocturnal pets, requiring a spacious enclosure with a warm and dimly lit setting. Their diet primarily consists of high-quality hedgehog food supplemented with ...

A coast away, Punxsutawney Phil emerged today with a prediction: early spring. At the Oregon Zoo, a groundhog-free zoo, curators turned to a far more adorable prognosticator: Nancy the African pygmy ...

Five month-old male Nigerian dwarf goats and two African pygmy hedgehogs are the latest additions to Randall Oaks Zoo in West Dundee as the public facility opens for the 2022 season. Zoo curator Sara ...

It turns out, legalizing pygmy hedgehogs was a more prickly issue than it seemed. Lawmakers tucked a small piece of legislation into a much larger health bill this fall that would allow the small ...

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...

Is this the cutest travel companion you've ever seen? Calico is a 2-year-old African Pygmy Hedgehog who takes adventures all over the U.S. Her owner documents it on Instagram, where Calico is becoming ...

Madalyn Schwer softly touches a prickly African pygmy hedgehog watched by Savannah, near, and Sophyah Vivion Saturday at Island Days in Bird Island. They were at Quistorff’s Little Bita Everything ...

It's not easy being prickly, or carrying a shell on your back. A proposal to remove African pygmy hedgehogs and hermit crabs from the Fairfax County list of "wild and exotic" animals has fizzled, ...

A domesticated hedgehog, also called an African pygmy hedgehog. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nilloc After a failed attempt last year, supporters of a plan to ...