NAME: PORCUPINE
DESCRIPTION: It can be told apart from the Indian Porcupine by its shorter dorsal crest small tail instead of a visible tail with white quills; thinner body quills, and smaller size. Its dorsal quills have one dark band while the Indian Porcupine’s have more than two. H.b. subcristata is a larger subspecies with more developed caudal rattling quills.
BEHAVIOUR: Does not rattle tail quills as much as the H. indica.
DISTRIBUTION: H.b. hodgsonii: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam. Meghalaya, Sikkim, West Bengal; H.b. subcristata: Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland.
HABITAT: It inhabits forests and forest fringes having rocky outcrops.
Size: 45–75 cm,
Wt: 8 kg
IUCN Status: Least Concern
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