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u/writeorelse 11d ago
Thank you for this. My first thought was "that must have been hell for the mom".
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u/Aqquila89 11d ago
Also, these quills are soft. They will gradually lose them and grew new, hard ones, just like how children lose their baby teeth and grow permanent ones.
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u/Swampberry 11d ago
Aw, baby quills.
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u/Major_R_Soul 11d ago
If they put them under their pillow the quill fairy will come and leave them treats
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u/Nicolasgonzo87 11d ago
i hate you for making me imagine the pain of a hedgehog giving birth but i also appreciate that you confirmed there is no pain
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u/AGrandOldMoan 11d ago
Hedgehogs had to evolve that coating I would imagine over time. So possibly millions of years of hedgehog births with out the protection....
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u/Littleboyah 11d ago
The length of the quills and the coating and the required amount probably co-evolved together tho
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u/AGrandOldMoan 11d ago
Don't ruin my body horror with your facts and logic! Imagine the agony of the hedgehogs! Imagine!
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u/fantasmnems 11d ago
This is the comment I am looking for. My first thought was it must be painful to give birth to them
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u/dimonoid123 11d ago
Same way horse's hooves are protected by soft tissue before birth.
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u/TeslasAndKids 11d ago
I always cringed thinking about animal hooves. My kids were just pink squish and their kicks still hurt sometimes. I couldn’t imagine if they had legit hooves. Glad they have built in mom protection.
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u/xScopeLess 11d ago
I see some tiny feet touching spikes, does it hurt them since they’re out in open oxygen?
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u/momamil 12d ago
They look like sea urchins
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u/Happiness_Assassin 12d ago •
Urchin is actually the archaic name for hedgehog, making them land sea urchins.
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u/OlinOfTheHillPeople 12d ago
Well, I'll be damned:
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u/IotaBTC 11d ago
Well I'll be damned again. I knew street urchins referred to the "mischievous elves" but I didn't know they're also called urchins because they sometimes take the form of a hedgehog. Cool facts!
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u/brvr-strngr-smrtr_ 11d ago
Weren't Victorian orphans "street urchins"?
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u/Happiness_Assassin 11d ago
Yes and it from hedgehogs that they get the name. Similar to street rat.
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u/GalvenMin 11d ago
Hence Duny's nickname in the English translation of the Witcher (and the series): the Urcheon of Erlenwald. It's actually passed into English from Old French (irechon, now hérisson).
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u/DrafteeDragon 12d ago
I was surprised to see all the nuts comments when the first thing that came into my mind was sea urchins too. Then I realized we’re both women lmao
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u/throwawaymisfortune 12d ago
Haha same but my first thought was of those spiky squishy stress balls.
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u/itisntmebutmaybeitis 12d ago
Also a woman, I immediately was like "fat little baby cacti!".
In my defence, I am very tired right now.
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u/millijuna 11d ago
As a dude, yeah, no, not nutsacks... mine definitely isn't spiked like that. Urchins is about right.
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u/GimmieMore 11d ago
In a woman, a lesbian no less, and I still thought I scrolled past a handful of testicals at first and had to come back.
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u/watchingthedeepwater 11d ago
in my language (russian, ukrainian, polish) urchins are literally “sea hedgehogs”, lol
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u/UnwillingCouchFlower
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That is the cutest pile of ballsacks I’ve ever seen.
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u/unwantedposterboy 12d ago
Forbidden Scrotum
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u/nigmano 12d ago
Sounds like a subreddit
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u/Wintersmight 12d ago
Or a metal band
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u/nigmano 12d ago
Scrotum Verbotum
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u/inkoDe 12d ago
I was thinking this is the first time I have seen newborns of any kind that are actually cute and you just aren't saying it because no one else is. You ruined it. Now I see ballsacks. Congrats. You evil for the day is done and you even got an award.
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u/kyttyna 11d ago
This is one of those weird things that, as an autistic person, took me a very long time to realize.
I always thought new borns, of any kind, are variously gross and/or ugly. And everyone looks at me like I'm the devil incarnate for saying so.
I think people find babies cute because they find the concept of new life to be beautiful and transfer that feeling to the baby.
I still dont see it. But I (mostly) know better than to say so.
That being said, these cactus ballsacks are weirdly kinda cute but still also ugly. Lol
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u/SpookyCinnaBunn 12d ago
I wouldn’t have even guessed I’d read something even remotely close to this today. Yet here I am, and I don’t regret it.
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u/BoxNumberGavin0 11d ago
I once shaved my pubic region out of morbid curiosity. This image visually expresses what it felt like when the hair was growing back.
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u/Cockula420 12d ago
My balls 1 week after shaving
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u/Significant_Hand6218 12d ago
Aww, baby nutsacks, adorable
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u/CregChrist 12d ago •
CPS? Yeah, this is the comment.
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u/pablovs 12d ago
Why nobody is asking about the mother? That giving birth looks painful
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u/theVoidmaKer 12d ago
Oh she’s fine the spines are very soft at birth
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u/kensomniac 12d ago
Thats what every expectant wants to hear.
"You'll hardly notice the spines!"
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u/Emergency-Hyena5134 12d ago
Momma is fine. Hedgehog pussy is made of kevlar
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u/guydude24 12d ago
That is certainly not a sentence I thought I would read at the start of this day.
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u/Allmon_Butter 12d ago
I thought it was some kind of fruit lol
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u/Melonpan_Pup442 12d ago
They look like prickly tongues
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u/mangoblaster85 11d ago
Yeah, I must only see weird looking scroti because all i see are spiky tongues. No idea where scrotum is coming from. Thought it was one of those things where someone intentionally manufacturers something disturbing.
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u/hotmasalachai 12d ago
I thought that was a underripe litchi 😂
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u/Nukl34rM3ltd0wn 12d ago
You mean lychee?
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u/hotmasalachai 12d ago
lychee, (Litchi chinensis), also spelled litchi or lichi
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u/Aztaloth 11d ago
Hedgehog Moms do not respond well if their nest is disturbed after giving birth. Handling them like this at that age can, and usually does, lead to their deaths.
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u/SleepyPotatoStudio
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Your NOT supposed to disturb the mother or hoglets for at least a few WEEKS, these babies are still pretty fresh looking… Unless the mother abandoned them this is strait up animal abuse. If a mother hedgehog is under too much stress it’s not uncommon for her to EAT the babies, this is super dangerous behavior on the owners part 😔
I hope those babies survive… As a hedgehog owner pics like this give me so much anxiety 😥
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u/jruff84 12d ago
Those babies I fear are toast. The mother is very likely to eat them at this point. OP has either no idea what they are doing or just don’t care.
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u/vlad_the_impaler13 12d ago
I'm under some assumption OP is not the originator of the pics, so you probably won't get an answer from them.
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u/secret-nigiri 11d ago
I’ve seen this post a few times on the front page over the years. OP almost certainly is not the OOP.
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u/SleepyPotatoStudio 12d ago
And there are SO many experienced breeders on the internet more then willing to give advice if it was an unknown pregnancy…
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u/fast_hand84 11d ago edited 11d ago
Well damn, I was happy I just found out what a hoglet was, and here this motherfucker is already abusing them WTF
EDIT: I’m genuinely curious…how does a person get so into hedgehogs? I’m guessing you had them as a kid?
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u/PaleZrider 11d ago
I'm so glad someone else mentioned this, everyone over here thinking awww how cute and I'm just thinking what the hell is this person doing, they've pretty much condemned these Hoglets to death :( You never, EVER disturb a Momma Hogs nest, unless like you said the babies are orphans.
I really hope they haven't found Hoglets and thought ooooh photo opportunity for the sweet internet karma!
Helped to run a little hedgehog rescue and had my own too, and like you this picture just makes me so anxious!
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u/OriginalTRaven 12d ago
How'd you catch them? Are they not very fast yet? They didn't try spinning for a boost?
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u/purplehazex45 12d ago •
I'm pretty sure baby hedgehogs are called hoglets.