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Home Forums Champions’ chat When should hedgehogs be out of hibernation Reply To: When should hedgehogs be out of hibernation

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Nic

Hi simbo65

That must be very worrying for you hoping for Cyclops (Cyclops sounds o.k. for a female as well, to me!) to appear again. Are you sure she’s still in there? Cameras aren’t always totally reliable.

If she’s a female, they do tend to hibernate until later than the males, and if she only started hibernation in January, it may be a bit later. But we don’t really know enough about hibernation. All I can say is that I have had some females who haven’t returned here until May. They were not hibernating in my garden, so when exactly they came out of hibernation, I don’t know. But they were hogs who had been used to coming here for food and when they did return visited regularly, so it seems likely that they would have made their way here fairly soon after emerging.

Fingers crossed that she will appear soon.

Hedgehog