Order: Rodentia
Family: Hystricidae - Old World Porcupines
Family: Erethizontidae - New World Porcupines

Family: Hystricidae - Old World Porcupines

Borneo

Porcupine with banana

Malayan porcupine or Himalayan porcupine (Hystrix brachyura)
Sarawak, Borneo
April 5, 2005

Porcupine - close encounter - a quilling experience

Malayan porcupine or Himalayan porcupine (Hystrix brachyura)
Sarawak, Borneo
April 5, 2005

Gives me the quills

Malayan porcupine or Himalayan porcupine (Hystrix brachyura)
Sarawak, Borneo
April 5, 2005

Porcupine

Malayan porcupine or Himalayan porcupine (Hystrix brachyura)
Sarawak, Borneo
April 5, 2005

Porcupine

Cape porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis)
Eagle Encounter
Somerset West
May 29, 2013

Family: Erethizontidae - New World Porcupines

Arboreal porcupine

Rothschild's porcupine (Coendou rothschildi)
Canopy Tower
Panama
July 14, 2018
Canon 7DmarkII

'Pine and palm

Rothschild's porcupine (Coendou rothschildi)
Canopy Tower
Panama
July 14, 2018
Canon 7DmarkII

Other quilled mammals

Echidna

Tenrecs

hedgehog

modified: July 23, 2018
created: January 11, 2014 (from peccary.html)
Contact: siegelr@stanford.edu
All pictures are protected by copyright. Do not use without permission.