Porcupine spines can grow back when they fall off. When a porcupine attacks an enemy, it will lunge forward and drive its spines into the opponent's body, or turn its back and buttocks toward the enemy, and then stand its spines up and shake them quickly before slamming backward into the opponent. Enemies attacked by porcupines are severely injured, so most carnivores do not prey on porcupines, and only a few aging, disabled predators use them as prey.

A porcupine spines off will still grow

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1, the porcupine's spines can grow back when they fall off. Porcupine to the enemy to launch an attack will lunge forward, and then the spines into each other, or back, buttocks toward the enemy, and then erect the body of the spines and rapid shaking, and then in a backward way to hit each other.

2, when the enemy is hit by the porcupine's spines will be seriously injured, so most carnivorous animals generally do not go to prey on the porcupine, only a few aging, disabled, and inactive carnivores will take the porcupine as food.

3, the porcupine to plant food, like to live in the cave, usually in the grass, dense forests, slopes and other places of habitat, the activity time is mostly for the night, moving the body of the spines will rub each other.

4, the gestation period of the porcupine is about 110 days, usually the porcupine can reproduce 2 litters a year, and each litter can give birth to 2 young.

Second, the porcupine is a few levels of protection

1, the porcupine is China's third level of protection of animals, has been included in the State Forestry Administration on August 1, 2000 issued the "national protection of beneficial or economically and scientifically important value of terrestrial wildlife list".

2. Currently, the wild porcupine resources have been decreasing day by day, and are about to face extinction, and the forestry department of our country has included it in the protected species and prohibited hunting.

3, most of the porcupines are distributed in the south and center of China, the habitat is mostly forests, open fields and other places. Porcupines often dig burrows under embankments and rocks, and will collectively forage along fixed lines at night, with food mostly consisting of bark, fruits, and roots of plants.

4, the porcupine can not be spines on the body ? Launch? out, because they lack the tissues that exert pressure for the spines. When porcupines are threatened, they will shake their tail spines to make a rattling sound or make behaviors such as stomping their feet or snorting.