Watch This Feisty Hedgehog Show Off Its Tough Side and Battle a Viper

Who knew that such an adorable little creature, the hedgehog, would be brave enough to take on a venomous viper? Let’s take a look at this bravery below.  

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Hedgehog and Viper Sighting in the Middle East

The next YouTube video posted at the top of this blog post takes us to the Middle East. The Discovery YouTube page shared this video. This channel shares clips and exclusives from animals in the United Kingdom and international Discovery Channel programs, according to their mission. They share a short description of what happened in the video below. 

“The long-eared hedgehog looks perfectly innocent but is cute and vicious in equal amounts. How will this little guy fare when faced with a deadly viper that wants to eat him?”

Hedgehog Vs. Viper

At the start of this video, we see a small hedgehog in the desert looking for some food. Cute, though he may be, the narrator shares that he is one of the voracious hunters in the desert. This hedgehog is known to be able to survive in the desert for up to 10 weeks without food or even water. 

But the narrator warns that when the hedgehog is truly hungry, it will eat just about anything that it can sink its teeth into. We see him first go for a locust and devour it in a very short amount of time. Secondly, we see him going for a scorpion and gobbling it up like it’s a taste gummy worm. 

This hedgehog has spikes all over his body. Because of this, few predators in the wild will go after this hedgehog because of that. “Hedgehog spines (a.k.a. quills) provide fall protection by absorbing shock and could offer insights for the design of lightweight, material-efficient, impact-resistant structures.” 

During the night, we see a long viper who is attempting to be the one predator who will go after this hedgehog if he doesn’t leave him alone. This viper curls up and begins to make a loud hissing sound; this is the sound of fear, according to the narrator.

How Many Hedgehogs Are There?

Hedgehogs of the family Erinaceidae can be found throughout Africa, Asia, Eurasia, and Europe. There are estimated to be some 879,000 hedgehogs left in their population. Their conservation status is considered to be of the least concern. Despite this number, there truly is not any definitive way to be able to determine how many hedgehogs there are in total. 

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