When I was looking on my hard disc for some photos of a very special species of mammal to show you (I will show it to you another time), I realized: I haven’t shown you any photos of one of my favourite mammals here! But that’s changing at once! Here they are – Long-eared Hedgehogs… Looking at the photos, it is easy comprehensible, why it has this name. They are very cute little guys, quite widespread in desert-like areas and they can ran very fast.
Actually, I connect a very special experience with my first encounter with this species. It was in Turkey in 2009: next to the Syrian border, the turkish military took us in custody at night and brought us to the General. We had to answer a lot of questions, but after few hours they let us go. Just two kilometers from the barack, a Long-eared Hedgehog ran over the street. Immediatly I made a full braking and tried to see it again. However, it had ran that fast, that I couldn’t see it any more. It has taken five years until I saw this species again…
And again, there was a quite strange adventure while this encounter. At night, I lay in front of the car to photograph the hedgehog. Daniel H. was standing next to me. A car drove by and broke abruptly. The driver got out of the car, walked to Daniel and passing me, I said “Здравствуйте” (Hello). Hearing me talking, he was terrified (no, it was not because of my bad pronounciation). Actually, he thought, Daniel would have driven over me…
Photographers do strange things, don’t they?!
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