Hedgehog

* Hedgehog (S2)
* Gold Trim
* Hedgehog (#GoldenAge)
* Classic Hedgehog

UPGRADED to Hedgehog!
(Hold W to become spiky, and dangerous to touch!)
The **Hedgehog** is a tier 6 Land animal in Mope.io, and is the equivalent of the Fox, Jellyfish, Peacock, Arctic Fox, Fennec Fox, and Raven.

## Technical

* Upgrades from the Deer, Squid, Flamingo, Gazelle or Reindeer at 5K XP.
* Upgrades to the Zebra, Donkey, Muskox, Warthog or Turtle at 12K XP.
* It can eat everything below it down to Mouse and their equivalents.
* Hedgehogs can turn spiky, like the Pufferfish, and can shoot poisonous spikes from behind. When its ability is in effect, the Hedgehog will say "POOF!"
* Can hide in small hiding holes and whirlpools.
* Can be eaten by all animals above it to Black Dragon.

## Appearance

### Hedgehog (S2)

The Hedgehog is a rounded animal with a large tan face and gray back. Its furry face has two darker pointed ears on either side of its face, a round black nose, and two large eyes looking to the top-left; like almost every animal in Mope.io. The bridge of its snout is darker. The Hedgehog has silvery quills on its back and is darker on the sides to give texture.

When it extends its quills, it puffs up to about 1.2X the size and looks much spikier.

### Gold Trim

The Gold-Trimmed Hedgehog’s differences from the Season 1 Hedgehog are that the guard hairs are gold on one half, and it also has gold ears. It looks like it has been dipped perfectly in molten gold.

### Hedgehog (#GoldenAge)

The Season 1 Hedgehog has a smaller, more defined head with tiny rounded ears. Its face is pointier, and its back is flatter in color. Less spines are seen on its back. It has a tiny tan circle as a tail.

### Classic Hedgehog

The Old/Legacy Hedgehog is body appears to be hunched, and it has small floppy ears that rest on its forehead. Its eyes are round and big, and a pointy, tiny tail sticks out at the end.

## Strategy

Level up quickly by eating red mushrooms. Eating mushrooms will level you up in seconds. Another option is to eat watermelon slices at the Volcano, by pressing the `S` key onto a Watermelon until it explodes. Either method guarantees a quick level up. Also, if you find a mushroom bush hold W or right click, and eat it! The Mushroom bushes will give out considerable XP, though it does take a while. Your best bet for farming is watermelon slices, just burst melons by shooting water at them, or find slices laying around, and you get an easy level-up into the next animals.

If you see prey that is worth going for (e.g. a Deer on low health), pursue it. Use your ability to prevent predators from attacking. The puff will stun them and push them back, and it works for all predator tiers. Since prey is unlikely to walk right into you, don't bother trying to stun it unless the prey is near you. Something you can do is to try pushing prey into Lava to lower their health bar, and eat them.

This animal’s ability has some interesting trolling potential. If you see a predator chasing its prey, puff yourself up and get the prey eaten. This works only for your prey, as your ability will not damage predators. But beware, if you attack when you are puffed-up or attempt to use a healing stone when you are puffed-up, you will make your prey bounce away and ruin your chances at a meal.

## Gallery

### Assets

The "*Season 2*" Hedgrhog skin, which is currently the default skin (in-Game from February 1, 2022-).The "*Season 2*" Hedgehog using its ability.The Gold Trim Hedgehog (available in the "Land Gold Trim" bundle; in-Store from October 19, 2020-).The Gold Trim Hedgehog using its ability.The "*#GoldenAge*" era Hedgehog (in-Game from December 23, 2019-January 31, 2022).The "*#GoldenAge*" Hedgehog using its ability.The Classic Hedgehog (in-Game from December 25, 2017-December 22 2019).The Classic Hedgehog using its ability.
### In-game

A Hedgehog stunning a Jaguar with its ability.
## Trivia

* Unlike in real life, the Hedgehog can shoot its quills. This may well be a reference to the false myth that porcupines can fire their quills at predators (what really happens is that when they swish their tail the some of the quills just fall off as they are often loose).
* When it was first shown, it was thought that it was going to be equivalent to Rhino.
* It is the 5th animal with a special interaction with poison, being able to poison animals. The other four are Cobra, Boa Constrictor, Blackwidow Spider and Giant Spider.
	+ However, the poisonous feature has been removed. Now the quills only stun predators and prey.
	+ There is a continuous glitch where the quills will still occasionally poison prey. This has yet to be fixed.
* There was an interesting glitch when you hold W and go inside a Hiding Hole: animals inside are forced out and they can't go back into the hole. They also get boosted out if they're in the hole and come out. This made the Hedgehog basically an improved Fox. This had great trolling potential, but was unfortunately removed.

* Land
* Ocean
* Arctic
* Desert
* Forest
* Lava
* Rares
* Poisonous
* AI
* Unreleased
* Re-added

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 **The Snowgirl** ·
 **King Dragon** ·

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/ **Duck** ·
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 **Land Monster** ·
 **Dino Monster** ·
 **Sea Monster** ·
 **Ice Monster** ·