Your spiky little friend could be carrying an unwelcome intruder: salmonella.

Jabba arrived at the Oak and Furrows wildlife rescue centre, near Swindon in England, weighing over 1.8kg.

Tiny, ancient hedgehogs and pre-historic tapirs once roamed the Bulkley Valley in northern British Columbia, many millenia ago when the area was a temperate oasis from the surrounding tropics, says a new study.