Porcupine

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Porcupine

• By Rustine Room 35 Grade2

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• Porcupines can roll into a ball. Porcupines eat
  leaves and bark from trees. They live in hollow
  trees. Porcupines slash their enemy with their
  tail. Their enemies are foxes, fishers, coyotes
  and wolves.

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• Their quills are sharp. Porcupines are good
  climbers, and good swimmers. Porcupines are
  clever. Porcupines are bigger than a beaver.
  Porcupines are mammals. When a baby porcupine is
  born its quills are powerful. Porcupines do not
  lay eggs. Porcupines have about 30,000 quills.
  Their belly do not have quills.

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• They are dark brown. Did you know that their
  quills can come off easily? Porcupines are large
  slow animals. They have a thick tail. The
  porcupine comes out to eat at night. The
  porcupine usually has a favorite tree.

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• A quill is not easy to remove. It works itself
  into the skin. The quills stick into their enemy.
  Porcupines have sharp claws. North American
  porcupines are the second biggest rodents on the
  continent. Theyre at least as heavy as a pail of
  ice. The porcupine moves slowly. Porcupines have
  poor eyesight.

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• The porcupine uses his long sharp teeth to gnaw
  on tree bark.. They can weigh up to forty pounds
  and grow to over three feet long. It shakes its
  body back and forth, and the quills make a
  ratting sound. It growls and chatters its teeth.
  In the winter porcupines eat tree bark. During
  the warmer months they eat leaves, grasses,
  shoots, roots and flowers.

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Credits

• Porcupine
• By Bricknell
• Pictures
• Slide 1 6 from http//www.hedweb.com/animimag/po
  rpine.htm
• Slide 2 3 from the book Porcupine
• Slide 4 5 drawn by Rustine