How To Use Porcupine In A Sentence

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.
Many of the Indians were already crowding about the train, some with polished buffalo horns for sale, and all magnificently dressed in buckskin, decorated with fine, old-fashioned bead work, and the quills of the porcupine. The Shagganappi
The Erethizontidae is a family of rodents commonly known as the New World porcupines.

There, a porcupine, wild boar, pig, stupid pig, Ukraine, pig eight quit of little piglets species.
Some describe it as a red-eyed E. look-alike with porcupine quills running down his spine.
At night, light from the interior radiates out in thousands of shimmering pinpricks, like a spectacularly illuminated porcupine.
These elaborately painted masks represent a pair of horned animals, each with a porcupine quill sprouting from its head.
Wrasse, butterflies, boxfish, porcupines and pufferfish round out the picture, while lyretail grouper, Napoleon wrasse and rock cod mix with regal, map and other angelfish.
These ‘resistance’ characters include such obvious traits as the quills on a porcupine or the puffing of a puffer fish.
Is it closest to the mole rats, or porcupines, or even chinchillas?
Meeting a porcupine, he knows its tricks; he was a victim of its quills before.
They also sometimes roost in the burrows of other mammals such as hedgehogs, porcupines, and aardvarks.
With his pomaded porcupine haircut and a nasality superimposed on his powerful voice, Neeson makes Kinsey the ultimate village atheist, a person who believes that everything can be explained in natural, rational terms.
Molluscs, barnacles, mussels, oysters, tortoises, hedgehogs, armadillos, porcupines, rhinos all grow their own.
It didn't take long before the spilt food attracted mice, and the mice attracted badgers, and the badgers attracted crazy porcupine things that we call Critters.
the transmogrification of the prince into a porcupine
The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others.
Small jungle cats, tiny mouse deer, porcupines and pythons all make the wilderness their home.
Look hard and you may see an eagle soaring on the thermals above you, or find a black-banded porcupine quill lying on the path at your feet.
Those guys tend to have a lot of electron density on them, and bonding between them is a careful, arm's-length affair, sort of like porcupines mating.
At length poor Mrs. Camford uttered a faint cry, which called Thisbe's attention back to the spot from whence it never should have strayed, -- her mistress 'cushioned chair, -- and she rushed in a sort of frenzy for the nerve-reviver, and applied it to the trembling lady's nostrils; whereupon that delicately-constituted specimen of the genus feminine uttered a stentorian shriek and flounced about the room like an irate porcupine, greatly to the terror of Alice, who had never witnessed such a scene before. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
I at once saw that it was an "urson," or porcupine; although my companion supposed it to be another animal, as he could not see the long quills with which the English porcupine is armed. Afar in the Forest
He was a bit of a porcupine to the last, still shedding darts; or rather he was to the end a bit of a schoolboy, and must still throw stones, but the essential toleration that underlay his disputatiousness, and the kindness that made of him a tender sicknurse and a generous helper, shone more conspicuously through. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
Other South American rodents include guinea pigs, chinchillas, and New World porcupines (one species of which has dispersed into North America).
At this very moment our freezer contains, in addition to food for us and frozen rodents for pet snakes, a painted turtle, a star nosed mole, a Senegal bichir, his pet rat "Pam" (who he's saving until his pine snake is big enough to eat her), porcupine feet, and probably many other things I have not found yet. A Freezer Full of Mystery
On a night drive expect to see an array of nocturnal animals such as the lesser bushbaby, porcupine and antbears.
For ceremonies, the men wore a deerskin shirt decorated with paint, feathers, porcupine-quills and scalps.
Although large-scale telecom operators to participate in community service competition in the market, but porcupines can still win.
Wild pigs, porcupines and rats, which are the main predators in paddy fields, are kept away using traps.
The ermine's diet consists primarily of mice, but they also prey upon cottontails, small hares, porcupines, squirrels, pikas, and rats.
The ermine's diet consists primarily of mice, but they also prey upon cottontails, small hares, porcupines, squirrels, pikas, and rats.
The presence of bite marks indicated social stress and porcupine quills showed that the leopard had been in constant pain.
The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others.
The plot sinks into absurdity, as dead people are resurrected and the Beast is exposed as a mechanical porcupine.
The rodent also seems to be an ancestor of the hystricognaths, a group of rodents that is spread across the globe and includes porcupines, African mole rats, guinea pigs, and chinchillas.
Whenever there's prickly situation, this dandruff - laden porcupine is sure to be far, far away.
One spaniel charged a porcupine five times — with a cost to remove the quills at $250 per poke. Another dog had buckshot removed from its hindquarters.
The Canada porcupine has more hairs than the American, and a shorter and stumpier tail. The Human Side of Animals
Eight other species, including pacas, pacaranas, spiny rats and porcupines, also steal Brazil nuts stored by agoutis.
Some species present, which are endemic to the Atlantic forest include maned sloth Bradypus torquatus (EN), thin-spined porcupine Chaeotemys subspinosus (EN), jaguar Panthera onca (VU) and Geoffroy's tufted-ear marmoset Callithrix geoffroyi (VU). Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves, Brazil
Mountain rhebuck, duiker, jackal, mongoose, porcupine and dassie now live in the Reserve.
Among other highlights is a complete 1790s Anishinaabe suit of clothing – leggings, shirt, silver ornaments, otter-skin bag and moccasins ornamented with loom-woven porcupine quills – that has been traced to Fort Michilimackinac in the Upper Great Lakes. 'Infinity Of Nations' Exhibit Opening At The National Museum Of The American Indian
The Kutchin make pretty pipe-stems out of goose-quills wound about with porcupine-quills. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
I was actually stuck with a porcupine quill once and had to go to the hospital to get it out.
We also saw large numbers of zebra, impala and oribi and the occasional porcupine.
The autumn trek between the Firth and Babbage rivers will find this Arctic netherworld in its glory with aurora borealis, char running rivers, ripe blueberries, and the migrating Porcupine Caribou Herd.
Several days were then spent learning how to sew the porcupine quills into decorative motifs on the clothing and attaching the silverberry seeds to the fringes.
Nocturnal animals like panthers, owls, porcupines, snakes, lizards, night czars, deer, etc., inhabit the region.
A still greater number must be called monstrosities, such as six-fingered men, porcupine men, Ancon sheep, Niata cattle, &c.; and as they are widely different in character from natural species, they throw very little light on our subject. VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
Native porcupine is eaten by the aborigines, who declare it to be budgeree.
Andrea's eyes met me once or twice, the hairs on her skin rising like porcupine needles.
The quills are so lightly fixed to the porcupine's body that they are easily detached and left imbedded in the attacker.
And in Canada designer Amy Nugent has taken things a step further, "harvesting" highway hits from bears and moose (what you might call megafauna) through to porcupines to fashion a celebrated jewellery range (www. roadquill.ca) that includes bracelets and tie slides. Latest Articles
Of the weird rodent he likens to a spineless porcupine, Timmins added, ‘Nobody could have predicted this new family.’
The guinea-pig belongs to the family of Cabiidae, which is genetically closer - despite its appearance - to the chinchilla or the porcupine than to the mouse or the rat.
They also sometimes roost in the burrows of other mammals such as hedgehogs, porcupines, and aardvarks.
On entering the crevice we recognised the proximity of tigers by a porcupine recently emboweled. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
Other animals photographed included elephants, sun bears, porcupines, clouded leopards, wild dogs, and panthers.
He can talk of sausages and silkworms, and forestry and agriculture and sheep-grazing, and how they catch porcupines and cure warts and manufacture manna; he knows about the evil eye and witches and the fata morgana and the tarantula spider, about figs in ancient and modern times and the fig-pecker bird -- that bird you eat bones and all, the focetola or beccafico (garden warbler). Alone
Underneath there, it's very, very soft fur underneath the porcupine.
Like elephants, hippos and bushpigs, porcupines are nocturnal crop raiders.
He flipped directly up to the porcupine, striking its nose with a resounding swack. Skinny Legs and All
Like a porcupine holding its ground against an onrushing automobile," he writes, "the 'never retreat' attitude may be suicidal this time. A Gulf Requiem
A porcupine road kill between Yellowknife and Hay River provided a good quantity of quills to start off with.
He was a magnificent canoeman, no man in Porcupine City could equal him for endurance, and for his bow paddle he had the best Indian in the whole Reindeer Lake country. Back to God's Country and Other Stories
They have to contend with elephants, hippos, bushpigs, porcupines, vervet monkeys, baboons and birds which are after their crops.
He was hungry and there was a porcupine to singe, clean, and roast before he would eat. THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
Having soon blown a film on these shoals and the occasional diversion of singletons like a moray eel, a porcupine pufferfish and a variety of grouper, I turn to the other reef life.
Would slay whoever dared confront Those moustaches that Bristled like porcupinequills.
A lonely porcupine likes to wander to the river alone and stare into the water expressionless.
Straight cyanidin 'proposition, averagin' $60 to the ton with a tunnel cross-cuttin 'the ore-shoot at forty feet that samples $80 where she begins to widen --" Lack of breath prevented Porcupine Jim from saying that the hanging wall was of schist and the foot wall of granite and he would take $65,000 for it, if he could have 10 per cent. in cash. The Man from the Bitter Roots
On the African continent, Ebola infections of human cases have been linked to direct contact with gorillas, chimpanzees, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines found dead in the rainforest.
I was only -- a kind of fretful porcupine -- standing up for my side. Delia Blanchflower
House sparrows, black-capped chickadees, and blue grouse dine on mistletoe berries, while porcupines devour whatever plant parts they can reach.
For the sake of morale, I had to get back to the people who were waiting for us in Porcupine.
I want my beautiful bolero with the porcupine quills.
As is the case with North American porcupines, the quills are loosely attached but can't be thrown or otherwise projected.
Such cooperation, however, can be compared to two porcupines cuddling up to stay warm - they can't avoid harming each other with their quills.
May, they reached the mouth of a river, which; from the unusual number of porcupines that were seen near it, they called _Porcupine river_. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe
With everything battened down, me a-steering and Tilly chopping ice, we held on half the night, till I plumped the sloop ashore on Porcupine Island, and we shivered it out on the beach; blankets wet, and Tilly drying the matches on her breast. SIWASH
Those guys tend to have a lot of electron density on them, and bonding between them is a careful, arm's-length affair, sort of like porcupines mating.
Burrows which have been abandoned may be used for shelter by bats, ground squirrels, hares, cats, civets, hyenas, jackals, porcupines, monitor lizards, owls and warthogs.
Most birdwatchers come to see the rare brown-necked parrots that frequent the area, but there's also a hide where you can see porcupines and bushbuck.
Now, you can touch this - not real hard - he doesn't have barbs in his quills like a porcupine.
Hedgehogs, porcupines, and some Old World salamanders sport protective spines.
Despite the fact that they burrow underground like moles, and have big front teeth like rats have, naked mole-rats are more closely related to porcupines and guinea pigs than to moles or rats.
There are 112 mammal species recorded here. including pacas (Agouti paca) and agoutis (Dasyprocta punctata), porcupines (Coendou prehensilis), spiny rats (Proechimys longicaudatus and Mesomys hispidus), hog-nosed skunks (Conepatus semistriatus), and peccaries (Tayassu pecari and T. tajacu, both locally extinct). Maranhão Babaçu forests
For example, since the porcupine quillwork was taking much too long, they decided to use a combination of quills and beads.
The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others.
(1730-6) -1755 OW hylobatine gibbon OW crotaline rattlesnake hystricine porcupine VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
Porcupine Jim declared that the place was "hoodooed" and as evidence enumerated the many accidents and delays. The Man from the Bitter Roots
The larvae are dotted with widely scattered short sharp spines, a possible throwback to the distant relationship molas have with the spiny porcupine puffer.
It has been over 50 years since porcupine quillwork was used as the primary decorative motif on Gwich'in jackets, slippers, and gloves.
Bobcats, wolverines, and fishers, that know how to flip the animal on its back and expose its unprotected underside, are the most adept at killing porcupines.
But this porcupine had no scratch on its belly; it had been attacked at the front end instead.
The shot was taken in Gabon's capital city, Libreville, where sea turtles, crocodiles, porcupines, antelopes, and other protected animals were openly on sale.
He was hungry and there was a porcupine to singe, clean, and roast before he would eat. THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
They have to contend with elephants, hippos, bushpigs, porcupines, vervet monkeys, baboons and birds which are after their crops.
Having secured the urson in a way which made its escape impossible, we turned our attention to the sable, which the dogs had brought to bay, but the brave little creature was becoming faint, from the wounds inflicted on it from the porcupine's tail, the quills from which were sticking out all over one side of its body. With Axe and Rifle
Gary is wearing a pair of jeans, a buckskin jacket decorated with porcupine quills, and his elaborate necklace.
A day came when Leclère gathered his dogs together and floated down in a bateau to Forty Mile, and on to the Porcupine, where he took a commission from the P.C. Company, and went exploring for the better part of a year. BÂTARD
Neelgai, sambar, cheetah, langur, porcupine and rabbit roam in abundance, while hyena, jackal, wild boar and a variety of birds including migratory ones have made Sariska a tourist's delight.
There, a porcupine, wild boar, pig, stupid pig, Ukraine, pig eight quit of little piglets species.
Their hair is cut so the boys look like porcupines and the girls like china dolls.
Bobcats, wolverines, and fishers, that know how to flip the animal on its back and expose its unprotected underside, are the most adept at killing porcupines.
Filefishes (Family Monacanthidae), triggerfishes (Family Balistidae), trunkfishes (Family Ostraciidae), and porcupinefishes (Family Diodontidae), have evolved interesting solutions to this problem. Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
Mountain rhebuck, duiker, jackal, mongoose, porcupine and dassie now live in the Reserve.
Now, it must be here understood, that ink is the great missive weapon in all battles of the learned, which, conveyed through a sort of engine called a quill, infinite numbers of these are darted at the enemy by the valiant on each side, with equal skill and violence, as if it were an engagement of porcupines. The Battle of the Books
Is it closest to the mole rats, or porcupines, or even chinchillas?
Several days were then spent learning how to sew the porcupine quills into decorative motifs on the clothing and attaching the silverberry seeds to the fringes.
With its back arched, head tucked away and peeping backwards underneath its belly, the porcupine turns its back on the attacker and charges, the idea being to drive the sharp quills into the attacker.
Over the Wall, from Heaven Up Here, is a tour de force of crispness and stereo definition, while the fabled murkiness that used to envelop Porcupine has been blown away in a shimmer of sonic brilliance.
When I heard from the old lady about Porcupine volunteering himself for the sake of Hubbard Squash to stop Red Shirt meddling with the Madonna, I clapped my hands and hoorayed for him. Botchan (Master Darling)
An adult porcupine has approximately 30,000 quills on its body, which are replaced every year.
Scientists say the decline of the Porcupine caribou herd in Alaska and the Yukon may be linked to global warming.
The grizzled leader hunched like a porcupine and peered through a screen of yaupon leaves, the crossbow held low before him. Fire The Sky
Among the most beautiful objects depicted are those with woven porcupine quills dyed many colors.
Burrows which have been abandoned may be used for shelter by bats, ground squirrels, hares, cats, civets, hyenas, jackals, porcupines, monitor lizards, owls and warthogs.
Porcupines use their spines to protect themselves.
‘Coyotes, skunks, porcupines, gophers… badgers, white-tail and mule deer - we've seen it all,’ Bruce says.
So we walked on, me in galumph-appreciative reverie, and stumbled upon a dead porcupine. The Boat | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
Eight other species, including pacas, pacaranas, spiny rats and porcupines, also steal Brazil nuts stored by agoutis.
Of particular interest is traditional Gwich'in summer clothing made of white caribou hides, sewn with sinew, and decorated with porcupine quills, trade beads, silverberry seeds, fringes, and ochre.
Under a ceiling of northern needleleaf trees, for instance, they know to look for porcupines, red squirrels, redbelly snakes, and brown creepers. The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
The land bridge allowed the South American armadillo, porcupine, opossum, and ground sloths to colonize the north, as well as the unique South American notoungulates.
Gary is wearing a pair of jeans, a buckskin jacket decorated with porcupine quills, and his elaborate necklace.
Certainly, Vincent and Ower's study of hedgehog and porcupine spines showed the efficiency of similar stringers and bulkheads at preventing local buckling in an otherwise hollow structure.
Would slay whoever dared confront Those moustaches that Bristled like porcupinequills.
Page view page image: dressed leather. they sometimes make bows of the Elk's horn and those also of the bighorn. those of the Elk's horn are made of a single peice and covered on the back with glue and sinues like those made of wood, and are frequently ornamented with a stran [d] wrought [of] porcupine quills and sinues raped around them for some distance at both extremities. the bows of the bighorn are formed of small peices laid flat and cemented with gleue, and rolled with siniws, after which, they are also covered on the back with sinews and glew, and highly ornamented as they are much prized. forming the sheild is a cerimony of great importance among them, this implement would in their minds be devested of much of its protecting power were it not inspired with those virtues by their old men and jugglers. their method of preparing it is thus, an entire skin of a bull buffaloe two years old is first provided; a feast is next prepared and all the warriors old men and jugglers invited to partake. a hole is sunk in the ground about the same in diameter with the intended sheild and about Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
A lonely porcupine likes to wander to the river alone and stare into the water expressionless.
It is with the porcupines, however, that the spiny defensive system reaches its zenith.
For example, the porcupine is defenseless except for its quills, the deer vulnerable except for its speed.
The rodent also seems to be an ancestor of the hystricognaths, a group of rodents that is spread across the globe and includes porcupines, African mole rats, guinea pigs, and chinchillas.
The English term bandicoot is a corruption of the Telinga name _pandikoku_, literally _pig-rat_.] _Porcupine_. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
The land bridge allowed the South American armadillo, porcupine, opossum, and ground sloths to colonize the north, as well as the unique South American notoungulates.
The Micmac called themselves megumawaach ` perfect men 'and migmac ` allies'; the Maliseet called them micmac ` porcupine people 'and mi k'am in Maliseet meant both "Micmac" and VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 2
The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others.
Despite the fact that they burrow underground like moles, and have big front teeth like rats have, naked mole-rats are more closely related to porcupines and guinea pigs than to moles or rats.
For example, the porcupine is defenseless except for its quills, the deer vulnerable except for its speed.
Indian boy was his retainer because the porcupine quill decorations on his buckskin shirt had the same peculiar pattern as that on the wamus of the Wild Hunter himself as well as on the collar of the pet sheep I had killed, and also on the buckskin bag of gold. The Black Wolf Pack
Dassies abound on the hills and there are also porcupines and antbears.
TWO little boys giggle as they play hide and seek among hundreds of filthy cages packed tight with civet cats, dogs, porcupines and squirrels.
Porcupine fish and old wives hover near encrusted piles, while talma poke among the soft corals.
Between Komfokorum and Dompoase, a man dangles a rat the size of a rabbit in front of our windscreen, trying to sell us bush meat; beneath his tarpaulin, I can see the brushy quills of something resembling a porcupine.
The quills are so lightly fixed to the porcupine's body that they are easily detached and left embedded in the attacker.
Quills, stops of various, 248. upon the porcupine, 131. upon the porpentine, 131. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
A fish suddenly swim into the porcupine's heart, into the fish's dreams.
Other species include giant armadillo Priodontes maximuss (EN), paca Cuniculus paca and prehensile-tailed porcupine Coendou bicolor. Rio Abiseo National Park, Peru
And there, just in front of this cave, lifeless and on its back, lay a young porcupine.
In May and early June the coastal plain serves as the principal calving ground for the Porcupine herd of caribou.
Burrows which have been abandoned may be used for shelter by bats, ground squirrels, hares, cats, civets, hyenas, jackals, porcupines, monitor lizards, owls and warthogs.
In short, the male antelope underscores the importance of self-protection, and his spiky mane evokes defense of the sort a porcupine might offer.
Yet display can also conceal, as the raised quills of a porcupine disguise the vulnerability and true size of its actual body.
This enormous flying boat, also known as the Flying Porcupine, was heavily armed with defensive weapons, including five 20 mm cannons and four machine-guns.
Timbavati is known for its large herds of buffalo and elephant, and the night drives are good for viewing leopards, antbears, porcupines and hyenas.
Like elephants, hippos and bushpigs, porcupines are nocturnal crop raiders.
They were decorated with porcupine quills, cut fringes, and simple geometric designs often colored with earth pigments.
In anger, she attacks the porcupine, and her nose is filled with quills.
On the trunk of a fallen tree, stood a porcupine, or urson, with quills erect, looking down on a smaller animal, which I at once recognised as a marten, or rather, a sable, which was gazing up in a defiant way, apparently meditating an attack on the other. With Axe and Rifle
As is the case with North American porcupines, the quills are loosely attached but can't be thrown or otherwise projected.

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