this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2025
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[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 23 points 1 week ago

He's on a stroll too

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He doesn’t look very fast

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

This one was not, but I have seen some that were really fast.

[–] Lycaon@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What a cute little guy!! Do hedgehogs there often go out during the day? Where I live I've only ever seen them at night

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

This was during the sunset, so it was the start of their activity.

The dusk and dawn are the periods when wildlife is the most active. However, elk and such know when to expect cars to be on the roads quite accurately.

[–] MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That’s neat. Where do they have hedgehogs that you can just run into like this?

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's my third hedgehog encounter this season. I live in a small city in Western Lithuania. Since it has a lot of green spaces, you can see various animals without venturing out of the city.

Overall, certain animals have had a renaissance in the region after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since a lot of lands have been left alone for 30 years and the amount of pesticides in use has been severely reduced.

[–] MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

That’s good to hear! I live in California and we have coyotes, deer, raccoons, and turkeys running around lol.

After looking it up, I just realized that hedgehogs are non-native to California and are illegal here, which explains why I’ve never seen one in the wild.

[–] Shellbeach@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's awesome to hear! I was just lamenting the lack of cute animals here. The garden is buzzing from all sorts of insects, including cute ones like fireflies and ladybugs, bees, etc. but realized that there is no hedgehog here helping me wage war against a serious infestation of slugs.

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Plenty of western countries lack hedgehogs in their gardens because of fences, that prevent hedgehogs from travelling around and finding enough food in order to survive.

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Green Hill Zone

[–] Teal@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

Safe travels little friend.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

Urbane hedgehog?

Way past cool.