On February 6, the Irkutsk petting zoo will celebrate World Hedgehog Day and invite everyone to a festival with games, quizzes and workshops on caring for these animals. Guests will also meet hedgehogs, and the main prickly weather forecaster will predict spring weather. The festival will run from 12 00 to 16 00 at the ISU Botanical Garden on Koltsova Street 93.
The World Hedgehog Day will be celebrated at the Irkutsk petting zoo. Everyone is invited to the celebration on Saturday, February 6.The program will run from 12:00 to 16:00. Visitors can look forward to games, quizzes, and master classes on caring for these wonderful animals. And most importantly: interacting with the animals.
As the zoo’s press service reported, the guest of honor, according to tradition, will predict the weather for the spring of the current year.
The meeting with the prickly weather forecaster will take place at: 93 Koltsova St., the ISU Botanical Garden. Information by phone: 664-639.
Reference: In Ancient Rome, Hedgehog Day was celebrated on February 2. The weather forecast was based on the behavior of a hedgehog awakened on this day, which either saw or did not see its shadow. The peoples of Western Europe, including Italy itself, preserved this tradition in later periods as well. In northern Germany, for example, from which settlers populated Pennsylvania, a badger would awaken at this time. In North America, where neither hedgehogs nor badgers lived, the role of such a natural weather forecaster passed to the groundhog. And thus the world-famous Groundhog Day was born thanks to the film of the same name.