When you think of a hedgehog, you might imagine them using their unique defense mechanism: curling into a tight, spiky ball.

Hedgehogs primarily eat macro invertebrates (the bigger bugs and insects), but if you analyse their faeces, you’ll see they eat “all sorts of things,” says Hugh Warwick. “I’ve collected ...

The animals they eat are called prey. Snails eat leaves and hedgehogs eat snails. So, the hedgehog is the predator. It gets its energy from eating the snail. Predators eat other animals.