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TYPES OF ANIMAL LIFE 



up in a ball, as it invariably does when it finds itself 

 in danger. There are about twenty different kinds 

 of hedgehogs distributed throughout Europe, Africa, 

 Northern Asia and Hindostan. They feed on insects, 



FIG. 



THE DWARF TUPAIA. 



slugs, mice, lizards, and snakes, and will also eat eggs, 

 fruit, and roots. In cold countries they hibernate, that 

 is, they pass their winter in sleep. 



An allied form, 'the hairs of which are not spiny, 

 though coarse, is the gymnura (Fig. 97). It is of the size 



