A rescue dog has lost an eye after a fight with a porcupine left it with 1,500 quills in its face. Brutus, a two-year-old ...
Prickle the porcupine had a rough start in life. On top of being orphaned as an infant, she also had to contend with a ...
Wildlife experts are puzzled by the discovery of a dead racoon on Cape Cod with porcupine quills. “It was very odd,” said ...
come here porcupine!" Then, not one but two crested porcupine emerged. The most striking thing wasn't the long black and white quills on their lumbering bodies - which at 30kg each were bigger ...
The dog got herself into a prickly situation. A man found her with 50 porcupine quills stuck in her face. "This sweet girl emerged from the woods, clearly in distress," the SPCA said on social media.
The porcupine is famous for having an impressive defense mechanism that consists of highly modified hairs that we call “quills.” Long, hollow and covered with barbs that behave like little ...
"The racoon had, like, a wash cloth on its rump, but even more interestingly, its muzzle and arms were filled with porcupine quills." The racoon was found Sunday afternoon on Smith Lane ...