four-toed hedgehog
African pygmy hedgehog
Atelerix albiventris latin

The spines on its back can be banded with coloring similar to the four-toed hedgehog.

The four-toed hedgehog is a solitary, nocturnal animal.

The most common sounds made by four-toed hedgehogs are snorts, hisses, and a quiet twittering sound.

When the four-toed hedgehog is introduced to a new or particularly strong smell, it will sometimes do what is referred to as self-anointing.

In the wild, four-toed hedgehogs live for no more than about three years, but they have lived up to ten years in captivity.

Due to the large amount of breeding stock available in captive collections, the four-toed hedgehog is rarely imported from the wild any longer.

As its common name implies, and unlike related species, the four-toed hedgehog typically has only four toes on each foot, lacking the hallux.

The four-toed hedgehog is one of the most popular species of domesticated hedgehog sold in the exotic pet trade.

Although four-toed hedgehogs do aestivate through the summer, this is not thought to be connected to a rise in temperature, but rather to a lack of available food.

Four-toed Hedgehog (Atelerix albiventris)

The main predators of four-toed hedgehogs within their natural habitat are Verreaux's Eagle-owl, jackals, hyenas, and honey badgers.

Animals that take part in these encounters include ferrets, four-toed hedgehogs, gambian pouched rats, lesser hedgehog tenrecs, and long-tailed chinchillas.

Domesticated Hedgehog: A cross between the Algerian Hedgehog and the Four-toed Hedgehog.

The four-toed hedgehog (Atelerix albiventris), or African pygmy hedgehog, is a species of hedgehog found throughout much of central and eastern Africa.

The most common pet species of hedgehog are hybrids of the white-bellied hedgehog or four-toed hedgehog (Atelerix albiventris) and the North African hedgehog (A. algirus).

Female four-toed hedgehogs do not go into estrus during any particular season, and are fertile throughout the year, although mating is most common during the rainy season, when food is most abundant.

Little is known about this species of hedgehog, even though the most common breed of domesticated hedgehogs is a result of crossing a Four-toed hedgehog with a North African hedgehog.

The four-toed hedgehog is found across a wide swathe of central Africa, from Gambia and Senegal in the west, to Somalia in the east, and also in eastern Africa, as far south as Mozambique.

African Pygmy hedgehogs may legally be kept as pets.

The African pygmy hedgehog may refer to two closely related hedgehogs:

African Pygmy hedgehogs are legal.

It is smaller than the European hedgehog, and thus is sometimes called the African pygmy hedgehog.

The four-toed hedgehog (Atelerix albiventris), or African pygmy hedgehog, is a species of hedgehog found throughout much of central and eastern Africa.

By African Pygmy hedgehog, this list is referring to the domesticated hedgehog commonly bred and sold as pets, not a specific breed of hedgehog from Africa.

The most common species of domesticated hedgehog is the African pygmy hedgehog, a hybrid of the white-bellied or four-toed hedgehog (Atelerix albiventris) and the Algerian hedgehog (A. algirus).

The most common pet species of hedgehog are hybrids of the white-bellied hedgehog or four-toed hedgehog (Atelerix albiventris) and the North African hedgehog (A. algirus).