Porcupine skull

Porcupine skull

Porcupines are mammals of the family Porcupidae in the order Rodentia, belonging to the genus Porcupines. Extremely large in size. Eyes and ears are very small; The skull is thick and robust, the occipital spine is well-developed, and the nasal bone is long and wide, longer than half the length of the skull; A cavity with expansion and inflation; The nasal snout is concave and the nasal cavity is large; My whole body is covered in thorns, and the spines on my buttocks are particularly long. My tail is hidden inside the spines. The base of the spines on the forehead and front back is light brown in color, while the upper part is white; The body is dark brown with a white stripe on the neck. Porcupines mostly inhabit mountainous environments, making large-scale prevention and control difficult. They are often captured using physical equipment. Due to the increasing depletion and extinction of wild porcupines, the Chinese forestry department has listed them as a protected species and banned hunting.
porcupine

porcupine

The porcupine family is a family of rodents in the mammalian order Rodentia. Undergraduate is the largest rodent with a robust body, covered in round or flat spines throughout the body, and with spines or bristles on the tail. Eat plant roots, tender leaves, bamboo shoots, wild fruits, as well as corn, potatoes, fruits, etc. The spines on the bodies of porcupines have evolved over a long period of time. In order to avoid attacks from natural enemies and extinction, the fur on their bodies gradually turned into hard spines. Compared with other mammals with long spines, their spines are easy to fall off, but they quickly grow back.