JennyC writes

"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message
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Oh! Ours seems to have gone into hibernation in the palais de
hedgehog we
constructed for it

What does a hedgehog palace look like?

http://tinyurl.com/yf8kjp
or http://www.schwegler-nature.com/Hedgehog/index.htm


The Australian Echidna also has a spiny back and is a marsupial which
I think is pretty much unique to this region of the world. So what
family of animals does a hedgehog belong to?

=Erinaceinae

Erinaceidae (note spelling) is the hedgehog family ;-)

Order Insectivora, which also includes mole, desman and shrew families.
--
Kay