#African Crested Porcupine

[aticketplz]

大根かな？

@遊亀公園附属動物園

#遊亀公園附属動物園 #アフリカタテガミヤマアラシ #Crested porcupine #porcubine #African porcupine #African crested porcupine #ヤマアラシ #mammal

[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)

#animals in art #animal holiday #european art #coati #South American coati #World Coati Day #painting #oil painting #tapestry #textiles #Pieter Boel #Flemish art #French art #17th century art #Charles Le Brun #Gobelins Factory #porcupine #African Crested Porcupine

[polarwooly]

Thistle and Rancor in Hell, 2022, colorized

#girfugol #griffon #fun times in rp last week #gryphus #dromaeus #balaur bondoc #giant koala #african crested porcupine #starling #shrike #coyote #utahraptor #thylacoleo #zodiolestes #falcarius #dante and virgil

[yanoharuhito]

hey. don't cry. porcupettes

#porcupines #african crested porcupine #prehensile tailed porcupine #north american porcupine

[zoofitness]

Love is porcupine shaped 💕

#my life is a zoo #thistle #cape porcupine #African crested porcupine

[blackbackedjackal]

I love getting skulls from species I've never seen irl before because yo what the fuck lmao

#the forbidden angle #vulture culture #nothing prepares you for the first time you see a new animal #it's an African Crested Porcupine #jackal's journal #jackaldermy #skull

[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

#my art #i imagine my version of artificer having quills like an african crested porcupine #but after the hell that was saints weird leaf fur i dont wanna draw that many details #so she get a big floofy mane for right now #probably still spiky though #and yeah the exposed bit of skull is semi-burnt #i should probably make it grey to show that but i like the maroon better

[a-book-of-creatures]

Trick or treat! c:

You have collected one (1) African crested porcupine

#trick or treat

[spacefinch]

A collage I made a few years ago, or some of my favorite animals featured in Wild Kratts.

I love the animation for this show, all the animals have so much personality while still looking pretty dang accurate.

Animals in this collage:

Chinese pangolins (accidentally put that picture in there twice)

Black-footed ferrets

Secretary bird

Antelope jackrabbit

Pronghorns

Peregrine falcon and chicks

American pine marten

American kestrel

Burrowing owl

Canada lynx

Golden-tailed sapphire (hummingbird)

Streaked tenrec

Loggerhead shrike

Elf owl

Bobcat

Fire salamander

Purple martin

Superb bird-of-paradise

Hawksbill sea turtle

Black-capped chickadee

Great emerald pondhawk (dragonfly)

Emerald-chinned hummingbird

Great blue heron

Arctic wolf

Cheetah

African crested porcupine

Pileated woodpecker

European hedgehog

Blue jay

Dyeing poison dart frog

Bald eagle

Nile crocodile

American robin

Manta ray

Bat-eared fox

African wildcat

Red panda

Osprey

Golden bamboo lemur

Ocelot

Tokay gecko

Thomson’s gazelle

Wandering glider/globe skimmer (dragonfly)

Green heron

Spotted eagle-owl

Gray wolves

Prairie falcon

Green-breasted mango (hummingbird)

Dholes

Husky dog

Three-toed sloth

Eastern screech-owl

#my edits #wild kratts #birdposting #I guess #there are … #(counts on fingers) #……. #21 species of birds in this collage #i think

[aticketplz]

なぜこんなに嬉しそうに見えるのか

＠遊亀公園附属動物園

#遊亀公園附属動物園 #Crested porcupine #porcupine #African Crested porcupine #アフリカタテガミヤマアラシ #タテガミヤマアラシ #ヤマアラシ #mammal

[comparativetarot]

Ten of Wands. Art by Taylor Hultquist-Todd, from Terra Arcanae.

Ten is tangled up in the quills of an African crested porcupine

#Taylor Hultquist-Todd #Terra Arcanae #Ten of Wands #Ten #Wands #Minor Arcana #Tarot #Animals #Porcupine

[sweetpeauserboxes]

[id: a light brown userbox with a brown border and brown text that reads “this user is a porcupine.” on the left is an image of an african crested porcupine. /end id]

#porcupine #soft aesthetic #soft userboxes #softcore #soft userbox #soft #cute userbox #cute userboxes #cute aesthetic #cutecore #cute #beige aesthetic #beige userbox #beige userboxes #beige #userboxes #userbox

[yanoharuhito]

i feel like talking about porcupines again...

so, crested porcupines are a lot of the time deemed dangerous animals by people who dont know a lot about them, but they're actually huge sweethearts. they're just nervous about new things a lot of the time.

all porcupines are reactive creatures, so they're docile when they're not being messed with. there are no porcupine attacks, just defenses. if you get quilled, it's 9 times out 10 your fault. but when they feel safe, they're really sweet animals! crested porcupines are quite social and like to cuddle and groom each other. some porcupines even like to be picked up and held! though it depends on their personality. in the wild, crested porcupines live in family groups and have one mate for their whole life. a lot of them respond to being petted by someone they trust by licking your hand, for example. it's like their way of petting you back (my cat does this!)

porcupines are also very food motivated. when given a snack, they'll hold it on the ground between their paws and munch on it. if you get too close to them while they're chowing down, they might raise their quills and turn away as if to say "back off, this is my food!"

sometimes when a porcupine is mad/nervous/unsure, they'll raise their quills and stomp their feet (i find this particularly cute.) the stomping thing is probably similar to a warning, like "i'm really going to do it! if you don't quit messing with me i'm really going to make you regret it!" though their little feet stomps are more cute than anything. they're throwing little hissy fits.

as babies, or porcupettes, crested porcupines are little balls of energy. they need to eat and run around a lot. there are videos online of porcupettes running around and 'popcorning' to expend energy. they just can't sit still, unless they're eating or napping.

as for touching a crested porcupine, it's actually much safer to pet them than most other porcupines in the world! unlike the prehensile-tailed porcupine (the ones with the pig noses,) crested porcupines actually have about an even split of quills and regular fur, so it's okay for you to rub their heads, sides, bellies, limbs, and chests without getting a quill or two! even if you do pet the quilly areas, as long as you go with the grain of their quills you won't get hurt. honestly, the tail quills are the ones you should worry most about.

in case you couldn't tell, i really love porcupines...

#african crested porcupine #infodumping hehe

[cloysterbell]

I am cackling that you gave Duke a ferret but unironically, you wouldn't happen to have ideas for Dwight, Gloria, the Teagues, etc, would you....?👀👀

Yeah but you can't tell me that the visual of Duke swaggering around the Rouge with a mink wrapped around his neck isn't a good one

Dwight: African wild dog or spotted hyena Gloria: crested porcupine Dave: fancy rat Vince: eastern gray squirrel

#questionbell #anonymous #pleaseeeeee write this fic

[oneanimalpictureaday]

Crested porcupine.

Fact from the African Wildlife Foundation: The word porcupine means “quill pig” in Latin; however, porcupines are large rodents and have no relation to pigs. Porcupines are the largest and heaviest of all African rodents. The head is roundish and rather domed, with a blunt muzzle and small eyes and ears. The legs are short and sturdy, and each foot has five toes, all equipped with powerful claws. Their most recognizable feature is, of course, its quills. Quill length varies on different parts of the body, ranging from 2.5 to 30.5 centimeters (1 to 12 inches). Usually, the quills lie flat against the body, but if danger threatens, they raise and spread them. Scales on quill tips lodge in the skin like fishhooks and are difficult to pull out. New quills grow in to replace lost ones.

#porcupine #crested porcupine #rodent #rodents #mammals

[rodentcompetition]

Rodent Competition 2023

Round 1

full list below!

Long-tailed chinchilla / Southern viscacha

Common degu / Horned gopher

Common gundi / Guinea pig

Josephoartigasia monesi / Pacarana

Patagonian mara / South African springhare

Spix's yellow-toothed cavy / Capybara

Central american agouti / Lowland paca

Laotian rock rat / Dassie rat

Least chipmunk / Eastern chipmunk

Thirteen-lined ground squirrel / California ground squirrel

Japanese dwarf flying squirrel / Tufted pygmy squirrel

Calabrian black squirrel / Red squirrel

Indian giant squirrel / Red and white giant flying squirrel

Yellow-bellied marmot / Groundhog

Cape mole-rat / Cape dune mole-rat

Naked mole rat / Big headed African mole rat

House mouse / Mongolian gerbil

Black rat / Brown rat

Rakali / Gambian pouched rat

Northern Luzon giant cloud rat / Maned rat

Cairo spiny mouse / Eurasian harvest mouse

Hungarian birch mouse / Striped grass mouse

Great jerboa / Baluchistan pygmy jerboa

Hazel dormouse / Kangaroo rat

Grasshopper mouse / Winter white dwarf hamster

Hatt's vesper rat / Syrian hamster

Norway lemming / Florida Mouse

European water vole / Townsend’s vole

Northern mole vole / Muskrat

Bristle-spined rat / Mountain beaver

North American beaver / Palaeocastor

Crested porcupine / North American porcupine

#rodentcompetition2023 #some changes might happen #mostly if I made some mistakes #but hopefully not! #here they are :D #some names in photos are shortened to fit #tournament poll #round 1