Porcupines aren’t looking for trouble. As long as you keep a respectful distance, you’re very unlikely to receive a nasty tail swipe.
Crossing paths with a porcupine isn’t an experience you’ll soon forget—it’s hard not to be intimidated by a ball of spines the size of a small dog. But the animal behind this menacing exterior is actually a harmless herbivore.
Coming too close to a porcupine can make it agitated and nervous, and it may deploy its best defense mechanism—swinging its thickly quilled tail at you in the hopes of lodging a few spines into your skin.A porcupine’s quills are only lightly attached to its body, meaning they will easily come loose when used in self-defense.
But there are also other signs to look out for. Porcupines love eating the nutritious under-layer of tree bark and will go so far as to chew it off of trees in large portions. If you see a tree with large patches of bark missing, especially if these areas feature scratches or tooth marks, you may have stumbled across a porcupine’s meal.
Your last line of defense against encountering a porcupine by surprise is your sense of smell. When threatened, porcupinesmeant to warn predators that quills are about to be deployed. It’s unlikely that you’ll come dangerously close to this large rodent without seeing or hearing it first, but trust your nose while exploring the forest—if you detect a sudden smell, stop where you are and look around for porcupines.
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