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  • Hello, and welcome to Weird, Gross, and Beautiful,

  • a casual discussion about animals

  • that I think are weird, gross, and beautiful, or all three.

  • And today we're talking about little hedgehogs.

  • Also, we have a new set.

  • So deal with that.

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  • Hedgehogs are illegal to own in Pennsylvania, California,

  • Georgia, Hawaii, and Nebraska.

  • Really?

  • What the [BLEEP]?

  • Hedgehogs were originally domesticated

  • in 4 BC for the purposes of killing them

  • for meat and quills.

  • They are called hedgehogs because when they are rummaging

  • through a hedge, if you will, they make little snorting

  • sounds like a hog, and that's really cute.

  • They just go oink, oink, oink.

  • Oh, they're so little.

  • Baby hedgehogs are called hoglets.

  • Stop it, stop it!

  • Guys, I think we have to rename the show to Catie Thinks

  • Everything is [BLEEP]ing Cute.

  • They have really bad eyesight, so they probably all

  • need glasses.

  • That's so cute!

  • So when one sense isn't so super duper,

  • then the other ones are usually a little bit elevated.

  • They have amazing senses of hearing and smell,

  • so that's good.

  • The can run up to six feet per second, and that's also cute.

  • Because they're little fat, and they're just like squish,

  • squish, squish.

  • But they're fast little prickle prackles.

  • They eat all of the nasty [BLEEP] in your garden

  • that you don't want.

  • That's why they've been called the gardner's friend,

  • because they eat things like snails and slugs

  • and mice, which is sad.

  • But also like bugs, frogs, insects, and worms,

  • and all those things that gardeners are I like, you!

  • Get out of my garden!

  • And the hedgehog comes and he's like, Oink!

  • Oink!

  • I would love to eat those things!

  • And they're like, You!

  • I like you!

  • So when hedgehogs they get scared,

  • they will curl up into their little prickly balls,

  • and they will sleep that way also, at the day time.

  • And then they will go hunting at night

  • for all of the creepy crawlies and stuff.

  • Hedgehogs have around 5,000 prickly spines,

  • and they will shed them once a year.

  • And they're like, super flexible,

  • and they get erected by muscles underneath.

  • And they've got little balls at the end of them

  • so that they can go doot, doot, doot.

  • They're hollow.

  • They're probably hollow because otherwise they'd be heavy.

  • So that's probably why that matters.

  • This is a very sad, sad fact.

  • If a hedgehog nest gets disturbed,

  • then mama hedgehog will eat her hedgehog babies.

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  • Show just got dark.

  • On that super depressing not, I think

  • that that's all I have for you today.

  • Be sure to like and share this video and stuff.

  • And subscribe also, because that would be cool.

  • My name is Catie Wayne, and if you would like to,

  • you can of course tweet @catiewayne.

  • And this episode was suggested to us by Matt.

  • Thank you, you're welcome, I love you.

  • You can check out these videos over here.

  • There's just so many things that you could do.

  • So do all the things that I ask you to do, please.

  • I love you all, and I'll see next time.

  • Bye, mwah!

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