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Are hedgehog and porcupine the same?

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Foster Schroeder ∙

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Updated: 7/27/2021

No. Although they are both placental mammals, and both have sharp spines, porcupines are in the rodent family (from the order rodentia), but hedgehogs are from the family insectivora.

Porcupines are also much larger than hedgehogs.

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