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  1. Soooo niedlich, wie er die Mehlwürmer rein schnurpst 🐛🦔 Das Schnurpsgeräusch musste ich leider entfernen, weil im Hintergrund die ganze Zeit Leute reden 😅

    #igel #hedgehog

  2. Soooo niedlich, wie er die Mehlwürmer rein schnurpst 🐛🦔 Das Schnurpsgeräusch musste ich leider entfernen, weil im Hintergrund die ganze Zeit Leute reden 😅

    #igel #hedgehog

  3. Soooo niedlich, wie er die Mehlwürmer rein schnurpst 🐛🦔 Das Schnurpsgeräusch musste ich leider entfernen, weil im Hintergrund die ganze Zeit Leute reden 😅

    #igel #hedgehog

  4. Soooo niedlich, wie er die Mehlwürmer rein schnurpst 🐛🦔 Das Schnurpsgeräusch musste ich leider entfernen, weil im Hintergrund die ganze Zeit Leute reden 😅

    #igel #hedgehog

  5. Soooo niedlich, wie er die Mehlwürmer rein schnurpst 🐛🦔 Das Schnurpsgeräusch musste ich leider entfernen, weil im Hintergrund die ganze Zeit Leute reden 😅

    #igel #hedgehog

  6. Ancient word of the day: Hedgehog

    The ancient word for today is hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus. In the Middle Ages, writers didn’t make reference to hedgehogs, but to urchins. This term for the spiky diminuitive animal is still favoured in some English dialects. We still have the lingering remnants of this etymology in the form of sea urchin, which is literally a sea hedgehog.

    The word urchin came to England with the Norman invasion and was derived from the Latin word ericius. Before the Norman conquest, the animal was known by the Anglo-Saxon name Igl.

    Other names

    Furze-pig – Devon

    Hotchi-witchi – Romani

    Hodmedods – Norfolk

    Ouriço cacheiro – crafty pig
    or porco espinho’ – spiky pig in Portuguese

    Detail of a miniature of hedgehogs sticking fallen fruit to their quills and carrying it back to their burrow; from the Rochester Bestiary, England (Rochester?), c. 1230, Royal MS 12 F. xiii, f. 45r.

    ”Thorns shall grow in their palaces, nettles & thistles in their strongholds … there shall the hedgehog build, dig, be there at home and bring forth his young ones.” Taverner’s Isiah 34, 1539.

    Detail of a miniature of the hedgehog reproaching the goat for his vanity; from Ulrich von Pottenstein, Spiegel der Weisheit, Austria (Salzburg), c. 1430, Egerton MS 1121, f. 44v.

    The hedgehog was a symbol of Christian humility

    The Speculum sapientiae, or Mirror of Wisdom is an ancient tale of beasts in Latin. In one tale, a passing goat sees its reflection in a pond and declares himself very handsome indeed. A hedgehog trundles along afterwards and reproaches the goat telling him that profound humility, not vain boasting are what makes animals truly noble.

    Detail of a miniature of a hedgehog; from Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre, vol. 1, Netherlands (Bruges), 1471-1483, Royal MS 15 E. iv, f. 180r.

    Read more: The British Library Digitised Manusripts

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  7. I was cleaning up the garden hose when this little gangster just strolled past me and started eating. Like I wasn't even there.

    What is it with the fearless animals in this garden? 😂

    #hedgehog #egel #wildlife #gardenwildlife #spiky #munch #fearless #animals #dontmindme

  8. Some Detox Doodles!

    These animals are from my 100-day journey to swap scrolling for sketching: joyousjoyness.com/pages/detox-

    Here are some hedgehogs, sugar gliders, red pandas, burrowing owls, ducks, and armadillos!

    #art #bird #hedgehog #redPanda #owl #duck #armadillo #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #InkArt

  9. It seems Tux wasn't hungry after all when he showed up earlier and I gave him some food. When I walked over to the window just now, I saw this spiky little guy happily clearing the platter of kibble. 😄🦔

    #hedgehog #egel #wildlife #porch #munch #cute #aww #critter #pointynose #pointyeverything

  10. New talk this Friday from @Myers_lab on #embryonic development and #cancer and how understanding the #Hedgehog pathway can help develop therapeutic methods! Join us at twitch.tv/open_science!
    #STEM #biochemistry #chemtwitter #openscience #scicomm #ScienceMastodon #chemistrymastodon #chemistry #streaming
    (Attached picture has the abstract)

  11. In EMBO Journal issue 3:

    Host #mucins negotiate peace with #toxigenic #Vibrio
    Cytosolic #stressgranules relieve nuclear #ubiquitin-#proteasome system
    #Smoothened #cholesterylation and ER exit links in #Hedgehog signaling
    Developmental #cellfate decision control by #chromatin reader #TRIM33
    Cover by Kimon Lemonides, Helen Walden et al

    embopress.org/toc/14602075/202