Porcupine

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Porcupine

• By
• Ben Salls
• October 2008

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Classification System

• KingdomAnimalia
•  Phylum Chordata
• Class Mammalia
• Order Rodentia
• Family Erethizontidae
• Genus Erethizon
• SpeciesErethizon dorsotum

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Habitat

• Western and Northern America
• Alaska
• Canada
• Forest
• Desert
• Pasture land
• Food/shelter available

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Shelter

• Hollow log
• Burrow
• Den
• Cave
• Find there shelter

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Diet

• Vegetarian
• Roots, Leaves, Bark, Evergreen needles, Berries,
  and Nuts
• Smell for food
• Gnaws an antler for minerals
• Climbs trees for food
• Young Nursing on mother

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Adaptations

• Good smell
• Quills help fight enemy

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Fun and Unusual Facts

• Doesnt Walk far or fast
• Sharp claws for climbing
• May have 30,000 quills
• Cannot shoot quills
• Long sharp quills
• Dont wreck there house.

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Works Cited

• Genoways, Hugh H. Porcupine. World Book.
  2006. 2006.
• NatureWorks. Update N/A. New Hampshire Public
  Television. 30 Sept. 2008 lthttp//www.nhptv.org/n
  atureworks/nw4.htmgt
• Stone, Lynn M. Porcupines. Vero Beach, FL
  Rourke, 1995.