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Hystrix cristata
(redirected from Crested Porcupine)

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Hystrix cristata
see porcupine.
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They include a number of wild cat species, North American and crested porcupines, hyraxes, sand snakes, mangrove snakes and the Brazilian wolf spider.
Animal laws are relaxed by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
The nocturnal African Crested Porcupine is most likely to emerge in early morning or late evening to scavenge for food.
DON' GET HER NEEDLED; Warning as 'unfriendly' 3ft porcupine escapes by The Mirror (London, England)
The African crested porcupine has hundreds of detachable quills and could attack if provoked.
Escaper a prickly problem by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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