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

The European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) has a natural defense that has served it well for millennia: it rolls into a ...

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

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

Researchers have discovered that hedgehogs can hear ultrasound, a surprising ability that could help protect them from cars.

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 ...

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

Hedgehog numbers are falling all over Europe. But new research shows there’s a ray of hope for this ancient beast ...

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, ...

Road traffic accidents are thought to kill up to a third of hedgehogs in local populations. View on euronews ...

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

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 ...