Talks about what they eat, their breeding, and quills. The porcupine Erethizon dorsatum is a largebodied, slowmoving rodent who would be illequipped to avoid any sort of predator were it not for his unique natural defensive system. This animals 30,000 quills, which are actually specially modified hairs, are marvels of evolutionary adaptation and present from birth.

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