Editing Hedgehog (section)

==Predators==
The various species have many predators: while forest hedgehogs are prey primarily to birds (especially [[owl]]s) and [[ferret]]s, smaller species like the [[long-eared hedgehog]] are prey to [[fox]]es, [[Gray wolf|wolves]], and [[mongoose]]s. Hedgehog bones have been found in the pellets of the [[Eurasian eagle owl]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100417205306/http://wildlife1.wildlifeinformation.org/s/0MInsectivor/Erinaceidae/Erinaceus/Erinaceus_europaeus/14WEHBehSocial.html Social Behaviour / Territoriality / Predation / Learning: West European Hedgehog]. wildlifeinformation.org</ref>

In Britain, a predator in intensively farmed areas is the [[European badger]] with populations lower in areas with many badgers.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://hedgehogcage.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1116_hedgehogs_on_arable_farms.1.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006102939/http://hedgehogcage.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1116_hedgehogs_on_arable_farms.1.pdf |archive-date=2014-10-06 |url-status=live |quote=Badger predation of hedgehogs was high in the study site and the main cause of death |doi=10.1111/j.1469-1795.2010.00359.x|title=The value of agri-environment schemes for macro-invertebrate feeders: Hedgehogs on arable farms in Britain|year=2010|last1=Hof|first1=A. R.|last2=Bright|first2=P. W.|journal=Animal Conservation|volume=13|issue=5|pages=467–473|bibcode=2010AnCon..13..467H |s2cid=82793575 }}</ref> Some hedgehog rescue societies will not release hedgehogs into known badger territories.<ref>[http://www.snufflelodge.org.uk/?page_id=929 Where have all the hedgehogs gone ?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617042849/http://www.snufflelodge.org.uk/?page_id=929 |date=17 June 2018 }}. Snufflelodge.org.uk. Retrieved 2013-09-05.</ref> Badgers also compete with hedgehogs for food.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/leaflets/sobh.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518140939/http://www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/leaflets/sobh.pdf |archive-date=2013-05-18 |url-status=live|title=The State of Britain's Hedgehogs 2011|author=David Wembridge|publisher=The British Hedgehog Preservation Society}}</ref>