Hedgehogs share distant ancestry with shrews (family Soricidae), with gymnures possibly being the intermediate link, and they have changed little over the last fifteen million years. Like many of the first mammals, they have adapted to a nocturnal way of life.
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Hedgehog (Krimpvarkie)
Shrews (Skeerbekke)
Mammals of the Waterberg
Species
