2018, Sally Coulthard, The Hedgehog Handbook, unnumbered page:
One hoglet didn't make it back from a practice foraging trip and the rest will need to be on high alert – only half of the four hoglets that set out today will live through their first hibernation.
2018, Massimo Vacchetta & Antonella Tomaselli, A Handful of Happiness: How a Prickly Creature Softened a Prickly Heart, unnumbered page:
In nature, hoglets that age would follow their mother out of the nest and learn from her how to procure food by digging in the ground.
If the hog parents develop the disease, you can be pretty sure the hoglets will too—even when they’re raised in different places, fed different diets, cared for by different owners.