porcupine vs hedgehog
Definitions
noun
- relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur
Examples
The prehensile tail porcupine in South American actually lives in the treetops.
Whole lions at £5,000 a head, antelopes, porcupines, goats, cane rats and large, live snails - all from West Africa - were also candidates for the dinner table.
The porcupine will gnaw at the base of the maize stalk and drop it, and in doing so is able to get to the maize cob.
Definitions
noun
- small nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines
- relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur
Examples
I don't think they play at all fairly," Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, "and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak and they don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them -- and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground -- and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!
the hedgehog is a primitive and generalized mammal
And hedgehogs released into areas of excellent habitat hightailed it out of there if they smelt badger.
