Citations:hoglet
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English citations of hoglet
Noun: "a baby hedgehog"
[edit]1995 | 2008 2016 2018 2021 | ||||||
ME « | 15th c. | 16th c. | 17th c. | 18th c. | 19th c. | 20th c. | 21st c. |
- 1995, Dennis Kelsey-Wood, African Pygmy Hedgehogs as Your New Pet, page 102:
- Do not succumb to your desires, as this might just result in the shortest-lived litter of hoglets that your sow will ever produce.
- 2008, Michael Leach, Hedgehog, page 8:
- At birth, newborn hoglets are pink, blind, and completely helpless.
- 2015, Megan Borgert-Spaniol, Baby Hedgehogs, page 4:
- Most litters have 4 to 7 hoglets.
- 2018, Sally Coulthard, The Hedgehog Handbook, unnumbered page:
- One hoglet didn't make it back from a practice foraging trip and the rest will need to be on high alert – only half of the four hoglets that set out today will live through their first hibernation.
- 2018, Massimo Vacchetta & Antonella Tomaselli, A Handful of Happiness: How a Prickly Creature Softened a Prickly Heart, unnumbered page:
- In nature, hoglets that age would follow their mother out of the nest and learn from her how to procure food by digging in the ground.
- 2021, Noelle Mateer, "Looks That Quill: The Dark Side of Hedgehog Instagram", Wired, 12 August 2021:
- If the hog parents develop the disease, you can be pretty sure the hoglets will too—even when they’re raised in different places, fed different diets, cared for by different owners.