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Sound-based deterrents could help keep the animals away from fast-moving cars and dangerous landscaping equipment ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The hedgehog is one of Europe’s most familiar and well-loved wild mammals. Many people encounter them in gardens, hear their ...

The European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) has a natural defense that has served it well for millennia: it rolls into a ...

Scientists found hedgehogs hear ultrasound, raising hopes for repellents to reduce road deaths. Researchers at the University of Oxford suggest that ultrasonic repellers could help lower the number of ...

A sound too high for you to hear may one day help keep hedgehogs off the road. That possibility comes from a new study in Biology Letters reporting that European hedgehogs can hear ultrasound, with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Study finds European hedgehogs hear ultrasound, raising hopes for sound devices that could keep them away from cars. (CREDIT: Pia ...

Researchers played a sountrack to hedgehogs to identify the frequency of sounds they can hear ...

Hedgehog pals could have a whole way of communicating that human ears can't detect, scientists have found. We already know the round spiky mammals grunt and sniffle at each other, but research has ...

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