In their paper, "A new species of forest hedgehog (Mesechinus, Erinaceidae, Eulipotyphla, Mammalia) from eastern China," published in the open access journal ZooKeys, the research team details the ...

The species we have in Hong Kong is the East Asian porcupine. They can weigh up to 2.5kg and can reach almost a metre long.” Not a hedgehog. This here is a porcupine. So why do people mix them up?

“There are 14 different species of hedgehog,” says Hugh Warwick, “which range across from Ireland to China; from Norway to South Africa – so it’s an old world species.” In ...