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I REMEMBER many years ago we kept a hedgehog on the Continent in an upper garden well w alled in. There she remained for some time, until she littered four or five young in a rubbish heap in a corner. The young having grown, and being able to move about, she and her whole brood disappeared. Her only way was over a wall four or five feet high, on which she left traces, but the young could not have been able to climb I REMEMBER many years ago we kept a hedgehog on the Continent in an upper garden well w alled in. There she remained for some time, until she littered four or five young in a rubbish heap in a corner. The young having grown, and being able to move about, she and her whole brood disappeared. Her only way was over a wall four or five feet high, on which she left traces, but the young could not have been able to climb this, and she must have carried them.
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CLARKE, H. The Climbing Powers of the Hedgehog. Nature 33, 604 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033604d0
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