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The North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum), also known as the Canadian porcupine, is a large quill-covered rodent in the New World porcupine family. It is the second largest rodent in North America after the North American beaver ( Castor canadensis ).
African brush-tailed porcupine sold for meat in Cameroon. The brush-tailed porcupine reaches 40 to 50 cm in length, not counting the tail. The adult weighs about 3 kg. It has an elongated, rat-like face and body and short legs, tipped with clawed and webbed feet. Unlike most other porcupines, the brush-tailed porcupine has light, small quills.
Punchy the porcupine is an African Crested Porcupine, the largest kind in the world. Though the quills look scary, he’s actually a sweet little guy, who likes pats from his keeper (on his head ...
Indian porcupine European ground squirrel Edible dormouse Striped field mouse. Rodents make up the largest order of mammals with over 40% of mammalian species. They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw, which grow continually and are kept short by gnawing. Most rodents are small though the porcupines can weigh up to 20 kg (44 lb).
A porcupine's colouring aids in part of its defence as most of the predators are nocturnal and colour-blind. A porcupine's markings are black and white. The dark body and coarse hair of the porcupine are dark brown/black and when quills are raised, present a white strip down its back mimicking the look of a skunk.
So unique that Ecosystem Science Professor Ken Otter says, "the probability for a mammal-like porcupine developing albinism is extremely low, ranging from one in 20,000 to one in a million." So ...
All About the Native Porcupine Native porcupines are the second largest rodent in North America, second only to beavers. They are about two or three feet long, and weigh between ten and thirty pounds.
Indian porcupines are almost the same size on average as well, being slightly heavier on average than crested porcupine but slightly lighter than Cape porcupines. [5] [6] Cape porcupines measure 63 to 81 centimetres (25 to 32 inches) long from the head to the base of the tail, with the tail adding a further 11–20 centimetres (4.3–7.9 inches ...