Stefan F. Wirth<p>The <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/European" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>European</span></a> <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/hedgehog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hedgehog</span></a>, <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/Erinaceus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Erinaceus</span></a> <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/europaeus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>europaeus</span></a> is native to parts of southern/ central <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a>, Scandinavia, and northern Russia. It lives solitarily in overlapping <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/territories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>territories</span></a> and protects itself from <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/predators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>predators</span></a> by <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/curlingup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>curlingup</span></a>, which requires complex muscular coordination.<br>K. Schütte et al. (2024) identified <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/ectoparasites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ectoparasites</span></a> of 498 specimens. <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/Ixodes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ixodes</span></a> <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/ricinus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ricinus</span></a> and I. <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/canisuga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canisuga</span></a> were the most abundant <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/ticks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ticks</span></a>.</p><p>© <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/StefanFWirth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StefanFWirth</span></a> <a href="https://biologists.social/tags/Berlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Berlin</span></a> 2025</p><p>Ref <br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-023-06081-9" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1186/s13071-023-060</span><span class="invisible">81-9</span></a></p><p><a href="https://biologists.social/tags/Photos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photos</span></a><br>© S.F. Wirth</p>