Unprovoked Aggression
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I seem to be on a very busy hedgehog highway and have set up a number of feeding stations to cope with several visitors at once. Usually if two arrive together they simply eat from different bowls, no problem.
Twice now though I have witnessed a much larger hedghog arrive and behave with aggression to the others. Initially I thought this was just about food dominance, it comes in and butts the other out of the way, eats a couple of mouthfuls and runs off at great speed. Last night though it came along, butted the other and after a few mountfuls of food seemed far more interested in pursuing the little hedghog than eating.
Having scared the smaller hedghog away it then ran off before returning 10 minutes later and charging around the whole area sniffing loudly as if hunting. One of the regular hedgehogs was eating at a more seculded station and was clearly wary enough to stop eating and melt silently back into the bushes when the larger one was around.In the morning I found that the dish, which is usually empty, was still largely full of biscuits. This big hedgehog seems to charge in, start on all the others and then tear of before returning to scour the area but oddly not really eating.
What’s going on here? I thought hedgehogs weren’t territorial and what’s it doing if it’s not about the food? I have a nice little community of hogs and I don’t want this one scaring them all away. I’m new to hedghog world so what am I missing?
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