Sound-based deterrents could help keep the animals away from fast-moving cars and dangerous landscaping equipment ...

Researchers played a sountrack to hedgehogs to identify the frequency of sounds they can hear ...

Road traffic accidents kill up to one in three hedgehogs in local populations. It’s not easy to deter hedgehogs from venturing on dangerous roads, but their hearing could be surprisingly useful. In a ...

A sound too high for you to hear may one day help keep hedgehogs off the road. That possibility comes from a new study in Biology Letters reporting that European hedgehogs can hear ultrasound, with ...

Researchers have discovered that hedgehogs can hear ultrasound, a surprising ability that could help protect them from cars. Since road traffic kills large numbers of hedgehogs, scientists believe ...

The team is looking for volunteer collaborators within the car industry who could spare the funds to finance a prototype ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford have suggested that ultrasound-repellers could help reduce hedgehog deaths caused by cars. The proposal is based on new findings, published in Biology Letters, ...

Meet the European hedgehog ( Erinaceus europaeus ), small nocturnal insectivores that turn into a spiny ball of death when they feel threatened. Unfortunately, the mammals are rapidly declining.

Scientists have found hedgehogs can hear higher pitched sounds than humans, cats and dogs, and hope the discovery could help protect them ...

The proposal is based on their findings which show for the first time that hedgehogs can hear high-frequency ultrasound.

Scientists discover hedgehogs hear ultrasound, opening the possibility of warning sounds that keep them away from roads.

Millions of hedgehogs die as they cross the roads, but a discovery is paving the way for a warning that might stop them crossing at dangerous times.