A small spiny mammal, it makes the most of the piles of leaves left at the foot of the graves. What is it?
The answer
The hedgehog needs what the city no longer offers: dead leaves, fallen wood, gaps beneath fences. Since Parisian cemeteries began leaving areas under light-touch management, it has found what it needs to overwinter there — and paths swept bare have stopped being the rule.
This question belongs to the “The Animals of Père-Lachaise” series of the Père-Lachaise quiz: ten questions, a story behind every right answer.