Porcupines

Porcupines
Author :
Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 237
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781421407357
ISBN-13 : 1421407353
Rating : 4/5 (353 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Porcupines by : Uldis Roze

Download or read book Porcupines written by Uldis Roze and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could a porcupine make a good pet? Do they ever stick themselves or other porcupines with their quills? In this latest addition to the Animal Answer Guide series, we learn about these mysterious animals’ "pincushion defense," along with the following facts: • Porcupines survive on a diet of leaves, bark, and fruit• Quills are actually modified hairs• There are 26 species of porcupines (and counting)• Old World and New World porcupines have a common ancestor but evolved independently• New World males will gather to fight ferociously over a single female Porcupines: The Animal Answer Guide presents solid, current science in the field of porcupine biology. Uldis Roze compares and contrasts porcupines in terms of body plan, behavior, ecology, reproduction, and evolutionary relationships. He examines the diversity of porcupines from around the world—from North and South America to Africa and Asia. This guide explores the interactions between humans and porcupines, including hunting, use of quills by aboriginal societies, efforts to poison porcupines, and human and pet injuries (and deaths) caused by porcupines. Roze also highlights the conservation issues that surround some porcupine species, such as the thin-spine porcupine of Brazil, which is so rare that it was thought to be extinct until its rediscovery in the 1980s.


Porcupines Related Books

Porcupines
Language: en
Pages: 237
Authors: Uldis Roze
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-28 - Publisher: JHU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Could a porcupine make a good pet? Do they ever stick themselves or other porcupines with their quills? In this latest addition to the Animal Answer Guide serie
Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays
Language: en
Pages: 560
Authors: D. H. Lawrence
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-01-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays restores what Lawrence wrote.
Reflection on the Death of a Porcupine
Language: en
Pages: 409
Authors: D. H. Lawrence
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-20 - Publisher: Rosetta Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This collection of essays by the author of Lady Chatterley’s Loverpresents his musings on literature, politics and philosophy in a newly restored text. Though
Exuberance
Language: en
Pages: 418
Authors: Kay Redfield Jamison
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-09-13 - Publisher: Vintage

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A national bestselling author examines one of the mind's most exalted states—one that is crucially important to learning, risk-taking, social cohesiveness, an
Appalachian Spring
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Marcia Bonta
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-15 - Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Marcia Bonta is a naturalist-writer who has lived on a 500-acre mountain-top farm in central Pennsylvania for twenty years. Appalachian Spring is her personal a