At birth the hedgehog weighs 0.43 to 0.63 ounces. The life span of the hedgehog is six to eight years in the wild and ten years in captivity. The hedgehog lives alone. The mother nurses her young for about thirty to thirty three days and then takes the young foraging for food. The hedgehog can smell something two inches underground.
Hedgehogs are eighteen to twenty five ounces when grown up.
The hedgehog has 6,000 spines depending on age. F. The hedgehog lives in weather 75 to 85 degrees. This hedgehog has at least 6,000 spines.