Porcupines

• About Porcupines
  
  Answers the questions of what porcupines look like, and where they live. Porcupines are mammals, more specifically, rodents. They are terrific climbers because of their long claws, and have excellent balance. Porcupines are mainly solitary and noctur ...
  http://science-ed.pnl.gov/pals/resource/cards/porcupines.stm

• The Pint Sized Porcupines
  
  See pictures and read about the baby porcupines at the Brookfield Zoo. African crested porcupines are the largest rodent species on the continent and are considered Old World porcupines. There are several species of porcupines in the Americas, but de ...
  http://www.brookfieldzoo.org/pgpages/pagegen.82.aspx

• A Porcupines
  
  See pictures and learn a little about Humphrey the porcupine. Porcupines live for about 15 years. An average adult is about 30 inches long and weighs about 15 pounds. Their tails are about 11 inches long and it helps them balance when they climb tr ...
  http://www.kidsfarm.com/rehabporcupine.htm

• All About Porcupines
  
  Learn about the habits of this animal, and see a map of where it can be found. werful rodent unique to North America; the only other place in the world where porcupines are found is in Africa, but that porcupine has enormous quills nearly a foot long ...
  http://www.nativetech.org/quill/porcupin.html

• Porcupines
  
  Scientific name of the common porcupine, reproductive information, and general remarks about this pokey mammal. Porcupines are large, slowmoving rodents that can be distinguished from other Kansas mammals by: 1 heavy body and relatively small head an ...
  http://www.ksr.ku.edu/libres/Mammals_of_Kansas/erethizon.html

• All About Porcupines
  
  A handbook that details identification of the animal, range, what it eats, and control methods.The Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management provides research based vertebrate damage control information for free to the general public. ...
  http://icwdm.org/Default.asp

• The Porcupines Animals
  
  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 30,00 ...
  http://www.hsus.org/wildlife/a_closer_look_at_wildlife/porcupines.html

• Information Of Porcupine
  
  Description, distribution, and biological information on porcupines. The porcupine is a robust rodent that usually weighs around 22 pounds. Its bluntnosed face has small eyes, and small, round ears. The legs are powerful with long curved claws making ...
  http://www.fishbc.com/adventure/wilderness/animals/porcup.htm

• The American Porcupine
  
  Gives a sketch of the animal, and a short description. The slowmoving North American porcupine is Canadas secondlargest rodent beavers are larger. It is distributed throughout most of the timbered areas of North America. In large males, the body may ...
  http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/amporcu.htm

• The Porcupine Information
  
  Gives quick facts, some pictures, and a description of the animal. The porcupine is a mediumsized rodent, related to mice and rats and beaver. An adult animal is about 50 cm long 20 inches, not counting the tail, and weighs from 4.5 to 13 kg 10 to 2 ...
  http://www.iwrc-online.org/kids/Facts/Mammals/porcupine.htm