porcupine

a porcupine's panoply of quills.

A porcupine is covered with prickles.

The porcupine's quills are sharp and can easily pierce skin.

Porcupines are nocturnal animals, meaning they are most active at night.

A porcupine's diet mainly consists of plants, bark, and fruit.

Porcupines are known for their unique defense mechanism of raising their quills when threatened.

The porcupine curled into a ball to protect itself from predators.

Porcupines can be found in various habitats, including forests, deserts, and grasslands.

The porcupine's spines are actually modified hairs.

Predators such as cougars and fishers have learned to avoid porcupines due to their sharp quills.

Porcupines are excellent climbers and can easily navigate through trees using their strong claws.

Porcupines are solitary animals and typically only come together during the breeding season.

The event's mascot is a porcupine, which, though well-armed, only causes pain when attacked.

They're actually related to porcupines and guinea pigs!

Porcupines swing their tails to stick predators with their quills.

We did prehensile-tailed porcupine and ball python and tenrec and three-banded armadillo.

If stock investors are the quokkas of the financial kingdom, bond investors are the porcupines: wary and naturally defensive.

Known as the porcupine herd, each year, they travel up to five thousand kilometers.

Similarly, these two look rodents look so much alike that we named them both “porcupine, ”

To make a modern analogy, think of Utahraptor as a wolf and Gastonia as a porcupine.

A cormorant may be looking for lunch, but chasing a porcupine puffer fish is all about fun.

Their burrows are used by warthogs, porcupines, meerkats and even by endangered pangolins as shelter from heat and cold.