Why have hedgehogs declined? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Hugh Warwick

Every day millions of internet users ask Google life’s most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queriesIt is not just Google that gets asked why hedgehogs have declined. In fact, over the past 10 years I have increasingly been quizzed on “where have all the hedgehogs gone” by the audiences of my lectures around the country.Initially I wondered whether this was more an indication of the age of the crowd. Many were Women’s Institute