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/Home/Sciences/Life Sciences/Animals & Pets/Wildlife/Porcupine Alaska Department of Fish and Game Home Page Votes:0 Skip to Main Page Content . Contacts • Licenses/Permits • Regulations • News • Publications Wildlife Viewing/Hunting Sportfishing Commercial Fishing Licensing Subsistence Boards Mission Statement Commissioner Contacts Project Expenditure Reports Memorial Online Fishing & Hunting Licenses ADF&G Public Notices State of Alaska Jobs at Workplace Alaska Alaska Department of Fish & Game P.O. Box 115526 1255 W. 8th Street Juneau, AK 99811-5526 Phone / Fax / TTY Online Fishing & Hunting Licenses ADF&G Public Notices Guides and Charters Limited Entry Discussion 2007–2008 Winter Drawing Hunt Application Apply Now for Winter Draw Hunts! Alaska's Invasive Rodent Management Plan McNeil River Draft Management Plan ADF&G Briefing Paper on Melamine in Hatchery Fish Food Repor Read More Go to Site AWF: Wildlife: Porcupine Votes:0 SEARCH My AWF | Shop | Adopt an Animal | Safaris | DONATE A porcupine's quills vary in length from 1 to 12 inches. If danger threatens, the porcupine raises and spreads them. Overlapping scales on the tip lodge in the skin like a fishhook and are difficult to pull out. New quills grow in to replace lost ones. Home > Wildlife > Porcupine Porcupine Physical Characteristics The so-called "Big Five" group of animals includes the elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion and leopard. Some years back a scientist suggested a "Small Five" group of animals, consisting of the aardvark, ratel, porcupine, pangolin and the naked mole-rat. Although at first this may seem a humorous suggestion, it is a reminder that many other interesting, lesser-known animals exist. The crested porcupine is the largest and heavies Read More Go to Site North American Porcupine (DesertUSA) Votes:0 DesertUSA Quick Links Home Animals Deserts Geology Maps Message Board Places to Go People & Cultures Photography Plants & Wildflowers Recipes-Southwest Search DesertUSA Shop Things to Do Travel Reservations Videos What's New Community DesertUSA Blog Forums Desert Talk Readers' Stories Readers' Photos Tools & Downloads Search DesertUSA Free Wallpaper Free E-Cards Podcasts Reservations General Info. About DUSA Advertising Contact Us North American Porcupine Erethizon dorsatum The porcupine is a quill-bearing rodent (Order Rodentia ) of the families Erethizontidae (New World) and Hystricidae (Old World). The North American Porcupine, best known of the New World species, is a heavyset, short-legged, slow-moving rodent that is usually solitary, nocturnal, herbivorous, and spends much of its tim Read More Go to Site Northwestern Ontario Mammal Species - Porcupine Votes:0 BACK Common Mammal Species of Northwestern Ontario BIRDS FISHES REPTILES INSECTS Erethizon dorsatum Porcupine Description Distinguishing Features - Overall colouration, glossy yellowy-brown, darker on back. Back and tail covered with thousands of sharp-pointed quills. Legs, short. Size - .6 - .9 m (2 - 3 ft) Habitat Widespread throughout Northwestern Ontario, in mixedwood forests, preferring pine habitats. Diet Mainly a herbivor, the porcupine's diet consists of leaves of shrubs and trees, a variety of boreal forest herbs, inner bark and needles of trees (preferring white pine). The porcupine has a taste for salt which accounts for its habit of eating anything that has a high sodium content. It will even wade into ponds for waterlilies and other water plants which are high in sodium. On oc Read More Go to Site Porcupine Votes:0 BIOMES KEY Animal List Porcupine Erethizon dorsatum General Information The porcupine is a mammal. It lives in North America, Africa and South America. The porcupine lives in the forests of North America . It also inhabits wooded areas from Alaska and Canada southward to the western United States . It grows to about 3 ft (1 meter). It has long, brownish or blackish hairs, and is woolly underneath the fur. It has long soft hairs and stiff quills on its back and on the side of the tail. It's slow moving, but an excellent climber . The porcupine usually grunts when an attacker is nearby. The porcupine doesn't hibernate, but does migrate because of the weather or low food supply. Niche/Habitat The porcupine lives in the deciduous forest biome. It lives in hollow logs, holes in the ground, or h Read More Go to Site

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