ARE HEDGEHOGS VERMIN ?
I Arc hedgehogsp era a par with stoats and weasels as destroyers of ground nesting bix-ds? It was emphatically stated at the annual meeting of the, Wellington Acclimatisation Society on Wednesday that they were. Mr. C.H. Bould was strongly of this opinion, and gave startling instances of the increase of these animals. A-friend of his' burning fern .'on a hillside was surprised to sec a number of what looked like stones rolling down. Knowing there were no stones on h!is property he investigated, and found .they were dead hedgehogs. On a small place at Waikanae where pheasants had been liberated for years with, Ifttle success, he . had . placed a pan of milk to attract hedgehogs, and in an.hour, there'wbrc iseven drinking at it, He had -at first consideredithat hedgehogs raided only at night, but latterly had discovered that they were also active in t&o daytime*
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 126, 30 May 1931, Page 6
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148ARE HEDGEHOGS VERMIN ? Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 126, 30 May 1931, Page 6
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