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    The North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum), also known as the Canadian porcupine, is a large quill-covered rodent in the New World porcupine family...
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    be found north of southern Mexico. The North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) is the only extant species, but at least 4 extinct relatives are...
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    of which the first is represented by the North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum), a stout, heavily built animal, with long hairs almost or quite hiding...
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    Family Erethizontidae: New World porcupines North American porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum Brazilian porcupine, Coendou prehensilis Bicolored-spined porcupine...
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    (1997-01-01). "Functional histology of quill erection in the porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum". Canadian Journal of Zoology. 75 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1139/z97-001....
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    on 2011-10-09. Retrieved 2011-12-12. "North American porcupine — Erethizon dorsatum (Linnaeus, 1758)". Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Archived...
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    Mammalogy, Fourth Edition. USA: Brooks/Cole. Weber, Christopher. "Erethizon dorsatum (North American porcupine)". Animal Diversity Web. Retrieved 2020-12-10...
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    (Nothrotheriops, Nothrotherium) Rodents (Rodentia) New World porcupines (Erethizon dorsatum, †Erethizon poyeri, †E. kleini) Capybaras (†Neochoerus pinckneyi, †N. aesopi)...
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  • laboratory from a specimen of dung of the North American porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum, collected in Ontario, Canada. Polytolypa hystricis contains bioactive...
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    Hystrix cristata Extant 27 kg (60 lb) 9 North American porcupine Erethizon dorsatum Extant 18 kg (40 lb) 10 Indian crested porcupine Hystrix indica Extant...
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  • Porcupine (Crested) (Hystrix cristata) 112 Porcupine (North American) (Erethizon dorsatum) 113 Porpoise (harbour) (Phocoena phocoena) 270 Pronghorn (Antilocapra...
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    reported in relation to small trees, outplants or otherwise. Porcupines (Erethizon dorsatum L.) may damage spruce (Nienstaedt 1957), but prefer red pine. Bark-stripping...
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    central Massachusetts, and northwestern Connecticut. Subspecies: Erethizon dorsatum dorsatum according to Hall (1981) and Whitaker and Hamilton (1998). Eastern...
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    Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou spinosus) Brown hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou vestitus) Erethizon North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum)...
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    Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou spinosus) Brown hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou vestitus) Erethizon North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum)...
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    Order: Rodentia, Family: Erethizontidae North American porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum, c Order: Chiroptera, Family: Vespertilionidae Big brown bat, Eptesicus...
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    golden eagle dying from the quills of a North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) it had attempted to hunt. On the Isle of Rùm in Scotland, there are...
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    The porcupine Erethizon dorsatum combines sharp spines with warning coloration...
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    B chromosomes. 68 Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) 34 69 Porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) 34 70 Globe artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus) 34 71 Yellow...
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    Pekania pennanti 1855 River otter Lontra canadensis 1900 Porcupine Erethizon dorsatum 1918 Passenger pigeon Ectopistes migratorius 1900, extinct Piping...
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    Order: Rodentia Family: Erethizontidae North American porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum, forests, sagebrush, willows, common Order: Chiroptera Family: Vespertilionidae...
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    eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus), North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum), bobcat (Lynx rufus), Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi), and coyote...
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    Family Erethizontidae (New World porcupines) North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) R Family Leporidae (rabbits and hares) Snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus)...
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    the meadow vole. Extirpated mammals include the common porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum), the gray wolf (Canis lupus), the red wolf (Canis rufus), the black...
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  • Zapus princeps Family: Erethizontidae North American porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum Family: Echimyidae Coypu, Myocastor coypus introduced Family: Sciuridae...
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    porcupine Genus Erethizon Erethizon bathygnathum (extinct) Erethizon cascoensis (extinct) Erethizon dorsatum - North American porcupine Erethizon kleini (extinct)...
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    rattus introduced Family: Erethizontidae North American porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum Family: Myocastoridae Nutria, Myocastor coypus introduced Family:...
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    grasslands. Smaller mammals include the North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum), black-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus californicus), mountain cottontail...
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    C. (December 1997). "Warning Odor of the North American Porcupine(Erethizon dorsatum)". Journal of Chemical Ecology. 23 (12): 2737–2754. Bibcode:1997JSP...
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  • Reithrodontomys megalotis Family: Erethizontidae North American porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum extirpated Family: Geomyidae Plains pocket gopher, Geomys bursarius...
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