Evidence: African pygmy hedgehog (Atelerix albiventris) nutrition
Source: Europe PMC (Europe PubMed Central) REST search — first-hand peer-reviewed abstract records, pulled 2026-08-01. Queries covered nutrient requirements, diet formulation, supplementation and deficiency for Atelerix albiventris. The cluster returns 1 representative nutrition studies with abstracts below. Abstract text is verbatim from source; each study is traceable by PMID.
Studies
- PMID 42450773 (2026, Animals : an open access journal from MDPI) — *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* A cross-sectional comparison of 19 client-owned African pygmy hedgehogs (Atelerix albiventris), aged 12–68 months—10 fed a commercial kitten diet and 9 fed a hedgehog-specific diet—measured serum blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, phosphorus, and calcium and compared the two diets' composition. Hedgehogs on the kitten diet showed significantly higher BUN (p = 0.0133), creatinine (p = 0.0279), and phosphorus (p = 0.0279) despite similar dietary phosphorus content; calcium did not differ (p = 0.3846), and the kitten diet carried higher declared fat with lower fiber. The authors suggest diet choice is associated with renal biochemical profiles and recommend species-appropriate feeding for this increasingly common companion animal.
Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42450773/
Source text: pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_hedgehog_nutrition_2026-08-01.txt (Europe PMC first-hand abstracts, pulled 2026-08-01).
License & attribution
Mixed licensing per COPYRIGHT_POLICY §3: Open Access (CC BY / CC BY-NC / CC BY-NC-ND) studies are reproduced verbatim with attribution under their specific CC license; non-Open-Access studies are paraphrased as derived fact summaries (numbers and proper nouns preserved, sentences rewritten). Original records:
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42450773/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40994563/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37889680/
Cleaning removal log (2026-08-05, codebuddy)
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