Porcupines Face a Poaching Crisis — and It’s All Because of What’s in Their Stomachs

Porcupines Face a Poaching Crisis — and It’s All Because of What’s in Their Stomachs

A porcupine’s diet is wide, varied, and a little hard to digest. A lifetime of grasses, herbs, bark and other vegetation can leave little bits of indigestible matter behind in a porcupine’s digestive tract, where they occasionally congeal into a hard ball called a bezoar. That sounds uncomfortable, but a porcupine’s health probably doesn’t suffer […]

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