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Porcupine
"Porcupine" in a Sentence (13 examples)
I live with a porcupine.
What's a porcupine?
What's the difference between a hedgehog and a porcupine?
Sami saw a porcupine in his backyard.
In the winter, when my hair gets dry, I look like a porcupine.
The porcupine rolled itself into a ball, radiating long, sharp needles in all directions that defied attack.
We're opposed to development in the birthplace and nursery of the porcupine caribou herd, which is on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Through a piece of linen he punched holes with a porcupine quill.
It sounded like a porcupine call.
The porcupine was walking towards the tent.
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I have no evidence of grizzlies killing porcupines or vice versa. However, occasionally there is contact and sometimes a grizzly is injured or a porcupine killed, but the latter is rare.
In particular, porcupines, hyenas, and leopards are known in Africa to transport bones to particular places.
Old World porcupines (Hystricidae) have quills embedded in clusters, whereas in New World porcupines (Erethizontidae) single quills are interspersed with bristles, underfur, and hair. No porcupine can throw its quills, but they detach easily and will remain embedded in an attacker.
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