Porcupine Farm: Deputy Dawg, or Up the Creek Without a Poodle

Saturday, July 27, 2013

at 8:35 AM

Joe W: The great crested porcupine must supplement its largely vegetarian diet by gnawing on bones and horns with its powerful incisors in order to obtain the necessary mineral salts to maintain its formidable quills. Fossil remains of early hominids often bear the distinctive marks of porcupine teeth.

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