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Porcupines
Porcupines are large, spine covered rodents that like a diet high in salt. Those in the Americas sometimes choose to live in trees, even though their distant relatives in Africa, Europe, and Asia prefer more grounded lifestyles. In the Order: rodent and Class: Rodentia, they need to gnaw constantly. Typical questions relate to the porcupine's uses of its quills, survival threats, preferred foods, interactions with people and wildlife, geographic ranges, and defensive behaviors.
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What happens when a porcupine quill gets in a predator?
When a porcupine quill gets in a predator it only causes pain to the predator. There is not poison on a porcupine quill.
Why is it important thet animals are different?
well so you know like for an example i have a bunny and guineapig my mom likes to save money so she gets the same fodds they need
Some animals that eat grub worms are raccoons, birds, skunks, and moles. Humans have also been known to eat grubs.
What conditions are necessary for a porcupine to survive?
Food, water, an acceptable habitat, and time.
What do porcupine offspring look like?
Porcupines look like little bugs when they are in offspring they don't look exatually what they look like when they are out. When they are offspring they are resting and waiting for winter. I know because i remember this book in 2nd Grade about porcupines.
Possibly. I had I hibiscus flower plant that died completely in winter. I begged my parents not to cut it down. So they didn't. That was like last year. After a while it started sprouting leaves. now, its in fullbloom! it was a miracle.
Are there any porcupine species that live in deserts?
The crested porcupine (Hystrix cristata) occurs over much of Africa, the Middle East and parts of Europe, including desert regions.
If two animals are in the same class what must they also be in?
the order is: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species, the answer should be phylum, because two worm in the same class
Do they have porcupines in Missouri?
I was traveling betwee Sullivan Missouri and Cuba Missouri a few weeks ago along I44 and I saw a porcupine dead along the road. I questioned my vision and traveled back along the service road and sure enough it was a pocupine. Hope this helps.
Is Jake felt the sharp points of the quills as they penetrated his leg transitiveor intransitive?
transitive
What is the purpose of the quill?
One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather., A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill., A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine., The pen of a squid. See Pen., The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments., The tube of a musical instrument., Something having the form of a quill, The fold or plain of a ruff., A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle., A hollow spindle., To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle., To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.
it will hurt very badley depending on where you get hit it will get very sore and it might swell up and it will get very stiff if you don't stretch it often.
Yes, Porcupines do eat apples. I have several porcupines that come to my apples trees all during the night to eat my apples. Caught them on my trail camera!
What theme or themes are exemplified by the sharp spines of a porcupine?
cells are an organism's basic units of structure and function
What is the difference between a porcupine and a rat?
The porcupine and the echidna are two very different animals. * Echidnas are monotremes (egg-laying mammals) and porcupines are placental mammals, and belong to the rodent family. * Echidnas are found in Australia and Papua New Guinea but porcupines are found in North America and Africa. * Porcupine quills are used more as active defence, whereas the echidna spines do not do a great deal of damage but certainly deter would-be predators. * There are around two dozen species of porcupine, but only two species of echidna. * Porcupines vary in size, with some species ranging between 80 and 115cm in length (including the tail); echidnas average between 30 and 50cm in length. Porcupines may weigh 5-16kg, but echidnas weigh 2-5kg, with those in the south being heavier than northern echidnas. * Some varieties of porcupine have quills 30cm long, but echidnas' spines average 5cm long. * Porcupines have quite long tails; echidnas have short, stubby, hairless tails. * Porcupines eat seeds, fruit, leaves, grasses, dandelions, bark, buds, twigs and aquatic plants; echidnas live almost exclusively on termites and ants. * Porcupines can climb trees, but echidnas are strictly ground-dwelling animals.
What is the opposite animal of a porcupine?
Another porcupine, facing the other way. The unporcupine is extinct. Oh wait, what about a HEDGEHOG?
Like other mammals, porcupines do in fact have lungs
-Abram
we,ve had problems for years in upstate pa. with these critters. An older gentleman told us to try fox urine, we,ve sprayed it around our garage and cabin and has worked pretty well. not 100% but has cut our visits from them down cosiderably.
According to Bob Hirshon for AAAS www.scienceupdate.com Otolaryngologist Yehuda Finkelstein performed a study in nine types of animals, including sheep, baboons, and chimps and of all the animals studied he found that only a few baboons have underdeveloped uvulas. Dogs do not have uvulas, and so we can conclude that only the human has the uvula.
What do fire ants do to defend themselves?
The fire ant will bite you, leaving a bad rash or sore which is very itchy. This is where they get the name 'Fire Ant'.
