#African porcupine

[aticketplz]

ブチギレながらごはん食べてるヤマアラシ。担当以外のスタッフさんがくるとこうなるらしいです。注射のときに押さえつける係とかしか接点がない人はめちゃくちゃ嫌われるらしい。「あいつがくるとよくないことが起こる」と思うんだって🤣ここのスタッフさんたちはいろいろ教えてくれて楽しい。

@伊豆アニマルキングダム

He was eating his food in a rage. His back is saying just that. It seems that staff other than the Porcupine caretaker provoke this reaction when they approach. People who only have contact when restraining for injections are especially disliked. 'Bad things happen when that person comes!' Despite the dedication of all the staff, it's a bit pitiful 😂 The staff's talk at this zoo is so informative and fun.

@Izu Animal Kingdom

[mishalogic]

AFRICAN PORCUPINE

Porcupine means "quill pig" in Latin

Rodents, no relation to pigs

Quills are like fishhooks difficult to pull out!

Lost quills are replaced by new quills

Life span 15-20 years

Habitat: hilly, rocky country, woodland savanna

Herbivores ... animal facts

[prolibytherium]

I love that I'm can always still find out about cool animals that I never knew existed. Like today I learned that brush-tailed porcupines exist and straight up look like giant rats with spines

[waterlilykitty]

Trip to Calgary Zoo part 5

Destination Africa part 1

The savannah part 1

Hyrax(?)

African porcupine

Baby tortoises 🐢

Hippopotamus 🦛

Giraffe 🦒

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Round 5: Final Roar

Porcupine vs African Forest Elephant

Arena: Arctic tundra

Remember, it's not a popularity contest-- it's a fight to the death!

[antiqueanimals]

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, vol. 11, Mammals II. 1972. Illustrated by Peter Barrett.

1.) African brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus)

2.) Long-tailed porcupine (Trichys fasciculata)

3.) North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum)

4.) Brazilian porcupine (Coendou prehensilis)

5.) Stump-tailed porcupine (Coendou rufescens)

6.) Bristle-spined porcupine (Chaetomys subspinosus)

[arthistoryanimalia]

For a belated #WorldPorcupineDay:

Akan artist Ashanti Region, Ghana Weight (abrammuo) of a porcupine (kotoko) 18th to late 19th c. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art display

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Photographer Helps Build Waterhole to Capture Incredible Photos of African Wildlife Using Camera Traps - Kenya’s Shompole Wilderness Camp

Porcupine

Photographer: Will Burrard-Lucas

[yanoharuhito]

hey. don't cry. porcupettes

[polarwooly]

Thistle and Rancor in Hell, 2022, colorized

[aticketplz]

大根かな？

@遊亀公園附属動物園

[animalsandanimals]

Two porcupine ran out into the road ahead of the photographer in Kruger National Park South Africa.

Article: Africa Guide

[authoramalgam]

For some reason my brain won't actually let me do a full Artificer idea, but heres a thing I guess

All I know, is I want to make her big and spikey

[ptseti]

This is the most educative, African Traditional Mural I've ever seen!🇬🇭.

The mural is of Ashante Chiefs 🇬🇭 and certain key elements of the ashante culture. The chiefs are Nana Kwabena Kanin (Otumfuor Suadu Hene) on the left, Otumfuor Nana Osei TuTu II ( Asantehene) in the middle, and Otumfour Nana Osei TuTu Agyeman Prempeh II on the right. The far left and right side of the artwork also consist of certain key elements of the ashante culture. Such as the kete traditional dance, Gold, the falcon bird as a totem of the oyoko clan, the porcupine…a well-known designated animal of the ashante kingdom and foods such as Cocoa,maize,cassava etc.

Amazing! Artist : afroheadgh_art

[azureforreal]

What porcupine is Flaky based on? And

How does she feel about her dandruff? Is she insecure about it?

1.North american porcupine, just imagine one with longer quills. Choose that one mostly because that species has barbs in their quills (unlike African porcupine). Needed to make Flaky's life 100x more harder and painful in the story, cursed with demise.

2. Very self aware and insecure about it. No matter how many times she washes up regularly, tries to get rid of them, they always come back.

On that note…

Those last two lines are a common exchange kek.

[arthistoryanimalia]

#WorldCoatiDay: a South American Coati in Louis XIV’s royal menagerie!

1. Pieter Boel (Flemish, 1622-1674), Fouine et Coati, c.1669-71, oil on canvas

2. Detail of the same coati (with African Crested Porcupine) in a tapestry: The Months or the Royal Houses, July, Vincennes; Charles Le Brun (designer) and Gobelins Factory (manufacturer), France, c.1676-80 (Boel’s studies were used as models for the animals in these tapestries)