It's not a hedgehog, its a lowland streaked tenrec
Say hello to a pretty unusual creature.
This may look like a cross between a mouse and a hedgehog, but it's actually a lowland streaked tenrec.
Four of the little creatures have arrived at Chester Zoo. Check them out:
Tenrecs are related to elephants and aardvarks but not to their spiky lookalikes hedgehogs.
They mostly eat insects and usually forage alone.
They are found in some place in Africa but mostly in southern and southwestern areas of the island of Madagascar.
Tenrecs communicate in a variety of ways, such as smell, touch and sound.
The lowland streaked tenrec communicates using something called stridulation, in which it rubs the quills on its back to make an super high-pitched noise.