North American porcupine
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The North American porcupine, also known as the Canadian porcupine, is a large quill-covered rodent in the New World porcupine family. It is the second largest rodent in North America after the North
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Juvenile male spends its first winters with its mother
E. d. dorsatum, resting in a tree, Ottawa, Ontario
North American porcupine at Long Lake Conservation Center in Palisade, Minnesota
Erethizon
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Erethizon is a genus of New World porcupine and the only one of its family to be found north of southern Mexico. The North American porcupine is the only extant species, but at least four extinct rela
North American porcupine
…Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Placentalia Order: Rodentia Family: Erethizontidae Subfamily: Erethizontinae Genus: Erethizon Species: E. dorsatum Binomial name Erethizon dorsatum (Linnaeus, 1758) Subspecies E. d. dorsatum E. d. bruneri E. d. couesi E. d. epixanthum E. d. myops…
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