Prickles Hedgehog Rescue saved the little guy from his crisp packet torment.

A hedgehog has been rescued from a salty fate after it became trapped in a crisp packet. The lucky little critter, now named Crispian, was trapped in the crisp packet and was trying to wriggle free when he was spotted by two passers-by in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.

Jamie-Lee Poole and Amanda Debruin, the locals who came across the animal, were unable to reach the animal, which was behind a railed-off area beneath a stairwell. So they called on street warden James Clayton and local carpenter John Meare to assist in the rescue.

Even these professionals struggled and it was only with the help of two volunteers from Pickles Hedgehog Rescue that the Crispian was eventually set free.

Jules Bishop, founder of the rescue group, told the BBC that the adventurous little mammal is now happy and back on the road to recover. “He’s thriving now and will be here all winter as he’s so tiny,” she said.

“I want to thank all the people involved because obviously without their commitment and dedication this little hog would have had no way to survive. He was very, very cold and dehydrated when I emptied him out of the crisp packet,” Ms Bishop added.

It is unknown what flavour of crisps were in the packet.

Noc is just looking for someone to talk to …

A Beluga whale called Noc has learned to use its nasal cavities to mimic the human voice, according to its handlers at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego.

This would be impressive and bizarre for any animal, but the fact that whales don’t even have vocal chords make Noc’s human voice even more astounding. Don’t just take our word for it, check out the video of Noc talking.

Although this amazing story has only just come to light, after being published in the Current Biology journal this week, Noc has been talking like a human since the 1980s, according to staff at the Foundation.

His warbling sounds a little like two people having a conversation far away, but he has also been known to raise his voice at staff members. Once, a diver who entered his tank quickly rose to the surface asking ‘who told me to get out?’ It merged that he had heard what sounded like a human voice shouting ‘out’ at him repeatedly. It seems Noc wasn’t in the mood for visitors that day!

His dedicated handlers have not been put off by his mood swings and insist his human-like sounds are an attempt to mimic those around him. Researchers believe he makes the sounds by cleverly adjusting the pressure in nasal cavities to make a sound much lower than regular whale sounds.