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The porcupine is a caviomorph rodent whose ancestors rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to Brazil over 30 million years ago, and then invaded North America during the Great American Interchange after the Isthmus of Panama rose 3 million years ago.
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Human hair may not compete with the painful spines of the porcupine, but much of the hair on the human body is suited to protect it.
The common porcupine is a herbivore.
The African porcupine is not a climber and forages on the ground.
A porcupine is any of 29 species of rodent belonging to the families Erethizontidae ( genera: Coendou, Sphiggurus, Erethizon, Echinoprocta, and Chaetomys ) or Hystricidae ( genera: Atherurus, Hystrix, and Trichys ).
This is parodied in A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court, where Bugs Bunny struggles to pronounce the word " porcupine ", which Porky pronounces with no trouble.
Another animal typical of this region is the Marsicano Brown Bear, along with wolves, deer, lynx, roe deer, snow vole, fox, porcupine, wild cat, wild boar, badger, otters and vipers.
The college's adopted mascot, shown here topping an archway, is a blue and gold porcupine ; from the Sidney family crest.
Maximum life span is usually longer for species that are larger or have effective defenses against predation, such as bird flight, tortoise shells, porcupine quills, or large primate brains.
This large exhibit replicates the Atlantic Coral Reef, and is filled with more than 500 exotic species that would be found anywhere from closer to shore to out into the trench and open ocean, including a Green Moray Eel, triggerfish, and porcupine fish.
Many rodents are nocturnal, and a porcupine is shown warning off a young leopard.
She is also a remarkably versatile cook, taking on anything from porcupine soup to roast penguin.
In Ereth's Birthday, Avi relates a fictional encounter between a porcupine ( Ereth ) and a fisher ( Marty ) who is hunting him.
Although the site is now below the southern boundary of their range, porcupine bones have been found in digs at the earliest occupational levels.
At the beginning of the 12th century, Henry I of England is known to have kept a collection of animals at his palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, reportedly including lions, leopards, lynxes, camels, owls and a porcupine.
Thus, the Madawaska is " the country of the porcupine ".
The maned rat or crested rat ( Lophiomys imhausi ) is a nocturnal, long-haired and bushy-tailed East African rodent that superficially resembles a porcupine.
This area, some of it protected in Washington's Salmo-Priest Wilderness, is also home to mule deer and white-tailed deer, elk, black bears, cougars, bobcats, red fox, bald eagles, golden eagles, osprey, great blue heron, porcupine, badgers, coyote, martens, bighorn sheep, and moose.
The English name likewise refers to the needle-like spines produced at the petiole bases ; for similar reasons, it is also occasionally called " porcupine palm ".
The North American porcupine ( Erethizon dorsatum ), also known as the Canadian porcupine or common porcupine, is a large rodent in the New World porcupine family.
The porcupine is the only native North American mammal with antibiotics in its skin.
Those antibiotics prevent infection when a porcupine falls out of a tree and is stuck with its own quills upon hitting the ground.
porcupine and rodent
Mammals found in the Wilderness include mule deer, bobcat, fox, mountain lion, porcupine, beaver, coyote, jack rabbit, cottontail rabbit, ground squirrels, kangaroo rat, and various other rodent species.
The Fish River mouth area supports several species of large and small mammals including five antelope species, bushpigs, various rodent species including mongoose, hyrax, hares, rats and mice, bats, and the shy African Wild Cat, Small Spotted Genet, Striped Polecat and Cape porcupine.
porcupine and ancestors
For instance, in North America today, the opossum, armadillo, and porcupine all trace back to ancestors that came across the land bridge from South America.
porcupine and across
When the continents joined 3 million years ago, the Great American Interchange resulted in many species being spread across the Americas, such as the cougar, porcupine, and hummingbirds.
Bighorn sheep, bobcat, coyote, bear, jackrabbit, cottontail rabbit, mule deer, white-tailed deer, gray fox, mountain lion, river otter, porcupine, pronghorn, raccoon, armadillo, Mexican wolf, and gray wolf can be found in all states across the southwest.
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The name porcupine comes from Middle French porc espin ( spined pig ).
Their spines are not poisonous or barbed and, unlike the quills of a porcupine, cannot easily be removed from the hedgehog.
All suffered from some disability, mainly caused either by gunshot wounds or porcupine quills.
Analysis of carcasses, skulls and preserved remains show that most of the man-eaters were suffering from disease or wounds like porcupine quills embedded deep in the skin or old gunshot wounds that had never healed.
Pangolin, barking deer, porcupine and wild boar are still spotted from time to time.
* Porky Pine, the porcupine from the comic strip Pogo by Walt Kelly
The word " Madawaska " comes from the Mi ' kmaq words madawas ( porcupine ) and kak ( place ).
The spectres ranged from an ant spectre, a porcupine / stingray spectre, a trilobite spectre, and a bat spectre.
The river's name comes from the Algonquian word " Madoueskak ", which means " land of the porcupine ".
He deals with threats from animals such as a porcupine, bear, skunk, moose, wolves and eventually becomes a good woodsman, crafting a bow, arrows, and a fishing spear.
The porcupine and the skunk are the only North American mammals that have black and white colours because they are the only mammals that benefit from letting other animals know where and who they are in the dark of the night.
The Brazilian Porcupine ( Coendou prehensilis ) is a porcupine found in Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, the Guyanas, Bolivia and Trinidad, with a single record from Ecuador.
Among these costumes are Scorpix, Shellator, Emily the Seed of Evil, Fangula Bat Monster, Fernzilla, and 2 monsters from B-Fighter Kabuto that were unused in this series ( the ant monster Baneria, and the porcupine / stingray monster Porcuray ).
Instead, the main source of animal protein during the year, comes from bushmeat, that is, wild game such as pangolin, porcupine, and monkey brought in by jungle hunters.
In Central Australia southwest of Alice Springs, the Pitjantjatjara term is tjilkamata or tjirili, from the word tjiri for spike of porcupine grass ( Triodia irritans ).
The name " Cacouna " comes from the Algonquian word Kakoua-Nak, meaning " land of the porcupine ".
Jon Maner and his colleagues ( Nathan DeWall, Roy Baumeister, and Mark Schaller ) referred to Schopenhauer's " porcupine problem " when interpreting results from experiments examining how people respond to ostracism and other forms of social rejection.
* Ikki ( character ), A porcupine from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book series
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