Citations:hoglet

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English citations of hoglet

Noun: "a baby hedgehog"[edit]

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  • 1995, Dennis Kelsey-Wood, African Pygmy Hedgehogs as Your New Pet, page 102:
    Do not succumb to your desires, as this might just result in the shortest-lived litter of hoglets that your sow will ever produce.
  • 2008, Michael Leach, Hedgehog, page 8:
    At birth, newborn hoglets are pink, blind, and completely helpless.
  • 2015, Megan Borgert-Spaniol, Baby Hedgehogs, page 4:
    Most litters have 4 to 7 hoglets.
  • 2018, Sally Coulthard, The Hedgehog Handbook, unnumbered page:
    One hoglet didn't make it back from a practice foraging trip and the rest will need to be on high alert – only half of the four hoglets that set out today will live through their first hibernation.
  • 2018, Massimo Vacchetta & Antonella Tomaselli, A Handful of Happiness: How a Prickly Creature Softened a Prickly Heart, unnumbered page:
    In nature, hoglets that age would follow their mother out of the nest and learn from her how to procure food by digging in the ground.
  • 2021, Noelle Mateer, "Looks That Quill: The Dark Side of Hedgehog Instagram", Wired, 12 August 2021:
    If the hog parents develop the disease, you can be pretty sure the hoglets will too—even when they’re raised in different places, fed different diets, cared for by different owners.