Debunking: African mini hedgehog bites a person and accepts this person? Be careful of being bitten by a white What is a Pinto African Mini Hedgehog What is the African Mini Hedgehog's Coated African Mini Hedgehog Smearing The Reason African Mini Hedgehog Is To Recognize This Person Even if the African Mini Hedgehog does not apply the sting to you, it will recognize that you Will bite the object before the African Mini Hedgehog is coated? In addition to the African Mini Hedgehog, there are other animals that like to apply to the body

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The ancestor of the thorn raised told Xiao Jia: If the hedgehog stabs you, it means that you are accepted. Including many forums and groups, the topic that the big guys are keen to discuss is also - did the hedgehog stab me? But is this statement really true? Let's explore it today.

At first, I thought the hedgehog was cute because I watched a movie in which there was a hedgehog, fat and fat, and it was very cute to walk. After waiting for a few years, Xiao Jia finally got a non-mitsuki hedgehog, a Pinto brother.

<h1>What is the Pinto African Mini Hedgehog</h1>?

There are three common colors for mini hedgehogs, which are primary, apricot and white. Later, according to these colors, various different colors of small hedgehogs were assigned, and Pinto was one of them.

Pinto mini hedgehogs come in two spine colors, generally both primary and white. Compared to the base color, the color of the flat hedgehog is more rare.

Although the round and rolling looks cute, but before raising Xiao Jia is still quite afraid of it pricking me with a thorn, every time I see it explode, I will think of Mama Rong's needle emoji.

Yet I know that when a hedgehog recognizes a person, it doesn't stab someone with a thorn. So I thought about how to make it quickly identify with me, to think that I was its friend, not its enemy.

Later, I was told that as long as the hedgehog has applied a thorn to you, it means that it recognizes you.

At this point, the knowledge point is super-outlined, Xiao Jia was completely ignorant at that time, what is the thorn?

<h1>What is the coated thorn of the African mini hedgehog</h1>

Smearing is the act of an African mini hedgehog smearing saliva on itself, and the action can be imagined as a cat licking its fur.

When you see the African mini hedgehog with white bubbles in its mouth and then twist their bodies extremely and apply the foam to its own spines with your tongue, that's when it's applying the stings.

When a hedgehog is coated with a thorn, some white foam remains between its spine and the skin. Due to the special structure of the thorn, it emptys the skin and the outside world when erected, and it is difficult for you to wipe it off.

Hedgehog stinging may also be related to age, sex and season. Studies have found that male hedgehogs are more likely to have a stinging behavior than female hedgehogs, and juvenile hedgehogs have more times than adult hedgehogs. In the summer, adult hedgehogs apply more stabs than in other seasons.

The picture of the non-misty hedgehog smearing the thorn is really weird, and it is a little ugly, if I did not know the thorn in advance, I would probably think that it was poisoned before spitting white foam.

<h1>The cause of the African mini hedgehog smearing</h1>

So far, the academic community has not reached a complete conclusion. But they give several reasons:

1. To record the taste

Mini hedgehogs are generally coated after they come into contact with a specific odor. For example, when they encounter their favorite scent, the hedgehog will apply the thorns. Or encountering a special food or snack, smelling that you have used a new hand sanitizer and touching the carpet, etc. can cause the hedgehog to apply thorns.

2. To mask the body odor on your body

Some animals in nature are inherently defensive, and hedgehogs definitely fall into this category. The hedgehog is a very timid animal, and it will curl up whenever there is a little wind and grass.

In order not to attract the attention of predators, some scholars believe that hedgehogs will disguise their odors (smear thorns), masking their own odors with new odors in the environment.

3. Apply toxins to the body to defend against attacks from wild predators

Hedgehogs are resistant to many toxins, including the venom of toads. Some people have seen hedgehogs apply toad venom to the thorns as a defense, but will non-psychic hedgehogs also understand this technique? This is yet to be confirmed.

<h1>Does the African mini hedgehog bite and apply the sting is equivalent to recognizing the person</h1>?

Although some seniors told me that as long as I was bitten and saw the hedgehog smeared, the hedgehog would touch me, but since I was a little afraid of being bitten, I did not dare to give my hand to the little hedgehog. Fortunately, before Xiao Jia was bitten, he got the following information.

1. Mini hedgehog bites do not necessarily apply thorns

On the second day after the little hedgehog arrived home, my brother used his fingers to tease it, only to be bitten hard and bleed.

Then I asked my brother, did the hedgehog have a thorn after biting you? He told me he didn't see it.

It can be seen that mini hedgehogs do not necessarily bite people, and when they are nervous, some of the more courageous hedgehogs will not shrink into a ball, and will directly bite enemies or objects.

In addition to the personal experience of Xiao Jia's family, there are also other parents who have been bitten in vain.

So when you see a hedgehog trying to bite you, don't just have the idea of having fun: The hedgehog is finally biting me. It's possible that you were bitten in vain and then watched the hedgehog slip back into the nest with a smoke.

2. Applying a stab after biting does not necessarily represent recognition

Xiao Jia has seen the hedgehog stab 2 times during this time, once after biting the apple (some thorn friends told me that the hedgehog likes to eat apples, I will try it), and the other time is after biting the wood.

After the little hedgehog applied the thorn to the apple, he never ate the apple again. Similarly, hedgehogs don't like sticks and explode spikes every time they smell them.

If the hedgehog is stinging to remember the nasty smell, in case it stabs you, you'll have to spend a longer time getting it to accept you.

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Even if the African mini hedgehog doesn't stab you, it will recognize you

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Someone specifically observed a group of hedgehogs and found that more than 11% of hedgehogs will have the behavior of applying thorns, that is, there will be a part of the hedgehogs that will not be stinged.

The most common way to make a mini hedgehog recognize the smell: put clothes with its own smell in the nest and after a few days it will get used to your smell. Or put the little hedgehog out every day and then use your hand close to its nose (but be careful of being bitten) until the little hedgehog smells human but doesn't curl up and fry the sting, which means that the non-psychic hedgehog is used to you.

Xiao Jia was successfully recognized by the second method, and now the hedgehog is no longer afraid of me. Although the little hedgehog didn't bite my hand and smear the thorns, I was able to grab it naked.

<h1>African mini hedgehogs must bite before they apply the thorns</h1>?

Non-psychic hedgehogs need to collect enough odors before applying the sting (biting objects and people are also collecting the scents), and some hedgehogs can also complete the scent collection step after licking it with their tongues many times, and then mix the scent and saliva into a foam to apply the scent.

So African mini hedgehogs don't necessarily bite before applying the thorns, they may just keep licking.

<h1>In addition to the African mini hedgehog, there are other animals that like to apply to the body</h1>

In fact, not only hedgehogs in nature have this habit of rubbing things on their bodies, such as some monkeys, elk and birds.

The other day I saw the smearing behavior of capuchin monkeys on the CCTV animal channel: they especially like to catch millipedes and smear themselves. While millipedes are poisonous, toxins can cause significant erythema, herpes and necrosis. Capuchin monkeys also enter a drunken state when they hold the millipede wipe, looking a little delirious.

So why is it doing this?

Because the venom of millipedes can help monkeys stay away from mosquito bites, this is also a defensive behavior of capuchin monkeys.

Therefore, it is not a strange behavior for a non-labyrinth to apply a thorn, and it does not necessarily accept you after biting you, and the parents of the thorn should consider it clearly.

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Resources:

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3.Hedgehogs use toad venom for defense. science-frontiers.com. 1978. Retrieved November 2, 2013.

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