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	Porcupine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Porcupines are rodents best known for their coat of sharp spines, or quills, that defend them from predators.
		In parts of Africa, porcupines are eaten as a form of bush meat.
		Porcupines occupy a wide range of habitats in tropical and temperate parts of Asia, Italy, Africa and the Americas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Porcupine (661 words)

	Porcupine Mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Porcupine Mountains are a group of small mountains spanning across the northwestern Upper Peninsula of Michigan in Ontonagon and Gogebic counties, near the shore of Lake Superior.
		The Porcupine Mountains were named by the native Ojibwa people, supposedly because their silhouette had the shape of a porcupine.
		Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park was established in 1945 to protect the last large stand of old-growth forest remaining in Michigan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Porcupine_Mountains (307 words)

	Porcupine - The Purcupines of British Columbia, Canada. Porcupines in BC
		The front half of the porcupine's body is covered in long guard hairs which are a yellowish colour in the west and fl or brown in the east.
		Biology - Mating habits of the porcupine are rather bizarre; the male approaches the female with embraces and nose-rubbing, if receptive, she allows him to spray her with gouts of urine.
		The porcupine feeds on leaves, twigs and green plants and has a ravenous appetite for salt (it will chew on any salt stained tools or clothes it comes across) and also it relishes plywood because of the glue between the layers.
	www.fishbc.com /adventure/wilderness/animals/porcup.htm (329 words)

	North American Porcupine (DesertUSA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Porcupine's feet have 4 toes on the forefeet and 5 on the hindfeet, all with long, curved claws and small textured knobby pads on the bottom.
		Although the Porcupine is usually regarded as arboreal and found in woodlands, individuals wander widely and have been observed among Creosote in all of the North American deserts.
		The Porcupine is primarily nocturnal and may rest by day in hollow trees and logs, crevices in rocky bluffs or underground burrows.
	www.desertusa.com /mag99/mar/papr/porcupine.html (642 words)

	Porcupine
		Porcupines are concentrated mostly in the western one-fourth of the state, but are slowly spreading eastward.
		A porcupine’s entire body, with the exception of the belly and legs, is covered with sharp quills.
		Porcupines are herbivorous, feeding on bark and twigs, and prefer to eat softwoods, such as pine, elm and poplar.
	www.wildlifedepartment.com /porcupine.htm (537 words)

	Porcupine: Wildlife Notebook Series - Alaska Department of Fish and Game
		The porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) is second in size only to the beaver among rodents of Alaska and has the northernmost range of all the world's porcupines.
		The porcupine is found throughout all of Alaska except the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak, Nunivak, and St. Lawrence islands.
		Porcupines can be injurious to commercial forests and reforestation projects by feeding on the terminal buds or eating the bark all the way around the trees.
	www.adfg.state.ak.us /pubs/notebook/smgame/porky.php (1418 words)

	Porcupine
		Porcupines are vegetarians, and they eat a large variety of plants, shrubs and trees.
		Porcupines are not territorial, and their home range may be as large as 200 acres.
		The porcupine is a medium-sized rodent, related to mice and rats and beaver.
	www.iwrc-online.org /kids/Facts/Mammals/porcupine.htm (474 words)

	African Wildlife Foundation: Wildlives
		Porcupines are relatively abundant, but as they are nocturnal, they are infrequently seen in the daytime.
		The porcupine is, of course, easily recognized by its most notable feature-its quills, the stiff, thick spines banded with fl, brown, pale yellow or white.
		The word porcupine means "quill pig" in Latin; however, porcupines are large rodents and not related to pigs at all.
	www.awf.org /wildlives/179 (797 words)

	NativeTech: About Porcupines... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The porcupine is a powerful 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 and a 1/4 inch in diameter (not very suitable for quill embroidery decoration).
		The porcupine is one of the largest rodents in North America, second only to the beaver, and porcupines grow to a length of 2 to 31/2 feet, tail included.
		During the day, porcupines can usually be found sleeping peacefully in the high crook of a tree, or like other rodents, taking care of their newborns in underground burrows.
	www.nativetech.org /quill/porcupin.html (595 words)

	NatureWorks - Porcupine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The common porcupine can be found in most of Canada and the western United States south to Mexico.
		Porcupines mate in late summer and early fall.
		The common porcupine is a solitary animal, although it may den with other porcupines in the winter.
	www.nhptv.org /natureworks/porcupine.htm (427 words)

	Porcupine
		Some porcupines have hooked, barbed shaped quills that are difficult to remove.
		The quills of the porcupine could kill the attacker by the germs injected with the quills or by damage to vital organs.
		The enviromental changes that affect the porcupine or its habitat are humans cutting down trees in the forest, and pollution.
	lsb.syr.edu /projects/cyberzoo/porcupine.html (238 words)

	Mole. The Animal In You
		Porcupines are physically small individuals with an over-abundance of attitude.
		The porcupine displays the characteristically sharp mind and opportunistic lifestyle of the rodent personalities, but unable to function successfully in social situations, it is limited in its career choices and is rarely found in sales or management positions.
		For in the bedroom, the porcupine tends to be a little too curious and explorative.
	www.animalinyou.com /Porcup.htm (396 words)

	Hinterland Who's Who - Porcupine
		Although the species of porcupine found in North America always lives among trees, it does not always live in mature forests and may be found in alder thickets along rivers and in dwarfed pine scrub along ridge crests.
		However, porcupines are said to have good memories and to be intelligent animals that are capable of learning quickly.
		Being slow moving, the porcupine is a frequent victim in forest fires and on roadways.
	www.hww.ca /hww2.asp?id=100 (2282 words)

	Porcupine
		The porcupine ranges throughout the Yukon and occasional records from the arctic coastal plain show that it does move beyond the treeline (Youngman 1975).
		Porcupine were common in the 1960s in the more densely wooded areas of the Vuntut Gwitchin country, particularly along the upper Porcupine River (Balikci 1963).
		Many porcupines were reported to have frozen to death in the cold winter of 1942-43 (Rand 1945).
	yukon.taiga.net /vuntutrda/mammals/porcup.htm (275 words)

	Porcupine
		Porcupines are the second largest rodent in South Dakota.
		Porcupines along the Missouri River and in western South Dakota have yellowish quills and yellow-tipped guard hairs.
		Porcupines are nocturnal herbivores, which means that they eat plants during the night.
	www.northern.edu /natsource/MAMMALS/Porcup1.htm (1101 words)

	Porcupine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Common porcupines generally weigh seven and a half to 15 pounds.
		Different species of porcupines are found in North and South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
		Porcupines walk with their toes pointed inwards (pigeon-toed) and have four toes on their front feet and five toes on their back feet.
	www.chintiminiwildlife.org /Education/WildNatHist/Porcupine.htm (207 words)

	Animal Fact Sheets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Porcupines are distributed in the Americas, Africa and Asia.
		Porcupines prefer forests with both hardwood and softwood trees, though they may be found in desert chaparral in northern Mexico.
		Porcupine quills have mildly antibiotic properties and thus are not infectious.
	www.zoo.org /educate/fact_sheets/porcupine/porc.htm (1064 words)

	Species Status Reports - Porcupine Caribou Herd
		The Porcupine caribou herd ranges throughout the northern Yukon, in the Northwest Territories (NWT) west of the Mackenzie River, and in northeastern Alaska.
		The Porcupine caribou herd is a symbol of the expansive, free, and natural arctic ecosystem.
		The two management goals set out in the Management Plan for the Porcupine Caribou Herd in Canada are: for the caribou to be healthy and reasonably abundant with free use of traditional ranges; and for people to traditionally use and fully appreciate the caribou and their ranges.
	www.taiga.net /wmac/researchplan/reports/caribou.html (972 words)

	THE PORCUPINE - CANADIAN ANIMALS
		Because porcupines are very short-sighted they must rely on sharp hearing and a keen sense of smell.
		Porcupines feed on tree bark, branches and pine needles in the winter.
		Porcupines are rodents (animals with sharp teeth for gnawing)
	www.saskschools.ca /~gregory/animals/porcupine.html (523 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		Porcupines have long, pointed spines, or quills, growing from the back and sides.
		The family is typified by the common porcupine, Hystrix cristata, which is thick-bodied, grizzled, and fl in color; it grows to a length of 60 cm (24 in), with some of its quills exceeding 30 cm (12 in) in length.
		The Canada porcupine is found in heavily wooded regions throughout North America, from Alaska to the northern extreme of Mexico.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/animals/porcupine.html (193 words)

	Porcupine Information...Order Rodent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A porcupine's habitat and range: forests, deserts, and grasslands of North and South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
		Porcupines can weigh from 2 to 60 pounds depending on the species.
		If the animal is not deterred the quills may lodge in the enemy's flesh when the porcupine brushes against the animal.
	www.planet-pets.com /plntporc.htm (178 words)

	PRICKLY PORCUPINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Porcupines can be seen at any time of the day but are most active at night.
		Porcupines are solitary rodents though males have been known to share their home ranges and even forage in the same tree.
		Porcupines have poor eyesight except at close range but, their sense of smell is excellent.
	www.waol.com /pages/s77.html (1773 words)

	EEK! - Critter Corner - The Porcupine
		The porcupine is a nocturnal (nighttime) animal from the rodent family.
		Porcupines are slow movers with their chunky round bodies.
		Porcupines look like a dark round ball about the size of a raccoon.
	www.dnr.state.wi.us /org/caer/ce/eek/critter/mammal/porcupine.htm (221 words)

	MarvelDirectory.com
		However, the Porcupine succeeded in escaping, and unsuccessfully tried to take revenge on them after Pym had also assumed the superhuman powers and identity of Giant-Man. During a battle with Giant-Man, the Porcupine stole and consumed a large number of what he thought were the capsules that Giant-Man used to grow in size.
		Eventually, however, the capsules' effect wore off, and the Porcupine, again at his normal size, was among the many costumed menaces assembled by Doctor Doom to disrupt the wedding of Reed Richards and Susan Storm.
		This time the Porcupine was defeated by the Hellcat during a battle between a number of the criminals and a group of adventurers operating under the auspices of the Defenders.
	www.marveldirectory.com /individuals/p/porcupine.htm (1902 words)

	Porcupine - Alberta Sustainable Resource Development
		Porcupines live by themselves, except during mating season in November and December.
		The porcupine is the only North American rodent to give birth to precocial young.
		Young porcupines are quite large at birth, weighing about 500 grams (1.1 lb.).
	www.srd.gov.ab.ca /fw/watch/rabb_porc.html (276 words)

	ANML's Porcupine - Home Page
		The “Porcupine” is an experimental high performance device designed to support research into advanced wireless network management.
		The Porcupine is designed to capture wireless packets and determine their origins in real-time.
		The Porcupine can operate passively, such as determining the source and nature of the network participants and can also operate as an active client or even a working wireless access point operating on multiple channels and covering a large area with multiple high-gain antennas.
	porcupine.iu.edu (203 words)

	Porcupine Tree: Cinematic catharsis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although Porcupine Tree is the main focus of 2005 for Wilson, he’s also committed to raising the profile of Blackfield, a duo project with Israeli musician Aviv Geffen.
		Porcupine Tree is closer to a traditional songwriting approach of sitting down at a piano or guitar with some lyrical themes to work with.
		Occasionally, Porcupine Tree will turn in a three-minute pop song, but at the end of the day, the band is more about the horizontal complexity of the music and a larger musical journey.
	www.innerviews.org /inner/ptree2.html (3003 words)

	Animal Tracks - Porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum)
		Porcupines are nocturnal vegetarians, but can be active by day.
		Porcupine scat is in pellet form, and often found in piles at the base of a tree where the animal has been feeding.
		The first porcupine I encountered was on the ground at Albee Creek Campground at Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
	www.bear-tracker.com /porcpine.html (351 words)

	Peter Porcupine
		Since it would be wrong to celebrate the death of another human being, Porcupine instead chose to âcommemorateâ the slaying of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Hibhib yesterday by going to see the film âUnited 93'.
		Porcupine approves of the sentiment and applauds the wit; really, perhaps they can be engraved with memorial names like you see in front of monuments built for charitable purposes.
		Porcupine is a great believer in the idea that even as all politics is local, so should all government be.
	capecodporcupine.blogspot.com (2484 words)

	The Porcupine!!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Porcupines are heavyset, short-legged rodents and they are generally solitary, nocturnal, and herbivorous.
		The porcupines in North America, spend much of the time in trees; while Old World species are ground-dwellers.
		The typical Old World porcupines are the crested porcupines of southern Europe, Africa, and Asia, named for their long neck and shoulder quills.
	www.geocities.com /RainForest/3512/porcupine.html (289 words)

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