Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Rice University
Insectivora
Our Hedgehog
Vlad
- African pigmy
- female
- ~600 g (~1.3 lbs)
For less than subtle reasons, Vlad was named after the 15th century Romanian warlord Vlad Tepesh, better
known as Vlad the Impaler. Her personality, however, is less fitting of her namesake, as she is the sweetest
and most personable hedgehog I have ever had the pleasure to know. Vlad will scurry around and climb on you,
or in your hands, and mostly only huffs into a ball when awakened or if not carefully picked up. She
absolutely loves mealworms, preferrably hand-fed.
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