hoglet

The name for a baby hedgehog is a hoglet.

Choanoflagellates contain a region named hoglet that is similar to the hedgehog C-terminal domain.

In addition, molecular phylogenetic analysis revealed that hoglet was more similar to hog than it was to bacterial inteins.

So the hoglet, Prickles, stayed with Mrs. Righini, whose impromptu hedgehog rescue operation eventually grew into a full-fledged hospital for sick, injured, orphaned or distressed hedgehogs.

"The little runt couldn't go back to the wild," Mrs. Righini, a teacher's aide, said of the smallest hedgehog, called a hoglet, who was pink with a wash of delicate white prickles when it arrived.