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Kinda cute at this stage... But they can be nasty l'il buggers when they get older though. My buddy's grandfather used to have him chase 'em down and beat them with a 2x4; then they'd eat the livers for dinner. His gramps said they were "saving all the trees and tires" around the farm.
Which reminds me...
"What is the difference between a 'BMW with Mass plates visiting Maine for the weekend', and a porcupine?"
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Give up ? ? ?
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A: The pr*cks are on the outside of the porcupine!
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Cute little rascal indeed. Love those ears.
A biologist told me porcupines are among the filthiest animals because their quills prevent them from cleaning themselves during their lifetimes. As a result, their coats and skin harbor untold numbers of bacteria, viruses and parasites. It's the price they pay for surviving while being so slow and dumb.
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bigbore442001 wrote:When they get older they become one of the smelliest creatures around. The porcupine will sleep in it's own waste.
P's break into my deer blinds and the worst part of the mess is the awful smell.
I talked to a commercial forestry biologist and he had never thought about odor issues in porcupine eradication. Said he would address that issue in his next magazine artricle about reasons foreeradicating/controlling them.
Claimed his company was losing $30-50K per year in arboreal damage from p'pines.
The old code of the woods was you didn't kill porcupines for naught. The thought was if you ever were caught without a weapon or injured you could at least kill a porcupine and eat to survive until you got yourself somewhere else. First pic looks like a hedgehog to me. The later one is a common porcupine.
Both kind of cool - I always think ALL animals are cool, "God's creations" or whatever, even snakes and other 'evil' animals. Sad that we humans seem to favor the 'cutesy' ones vs. the others; no reason a baby milk snake isn't as deserving of human protection as a baby kitten.
First picture is indeed a hedgehog, a type of insectivore rather than a rodent. Bruce Scott's photo shows a porcupine and the later "fishing bobbers" are made from African Porcupines, which are not really closely related to our North American porcupines.
