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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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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'.
Why are some animals more likely to adulthood than other animals?
Because some animals have more predators or they are more exposed to dieseses therefore they might die before they are adults
Porcupines attack because of fear - if they feel scared or threatened, they will attack or attempt to warn off their enemy.
A mammal is a warmblooded vertebrate animal of a class that is distinguished by the possession of hair or fur, the secretion of milk by females for the nourishment of the young, and (typically) the birth of live young.
This applies to porcupines, so they are mammals.
The vet removed the quill from the dog's nose. The quill pen was difficult to write with.
How much does the average porcupine weigh?
The porcupine may one of any of the 29 species- They range (in adult size) from less than two pound, to over sixty pounds.
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Porcupines have those sharp spines for a reason! It's a defense mechanism and protects them from predators! they were born that way. god made them that way
How do scaled fish obtain food?
Scaled fish often obtain food by eating plants and animals that are smaller than themselves. Some fish have teeth or hard bony structures that can help to crush them into smaller pieces.
How do porcupines and hedgehogs differ?
It is very difficult to tell a male and female porcupine apart externally. The females are slightly smaller and have mammary organs while males have a penis which you cannot see from a distance.
