A Post About Porcupines

Because of the InterWebs I now know that not only do porky quills have value on Ebay, but some people find porcupine meat plenty edible. An adult North American porcupine, after all, may have some 30,000 quills and each quill tip has backward-facing micro-barbs whose structure makes going in nice and easy but coming out a bitch and a half. [Porcupines have glands on their back that give off a warning odor, in a substance disseminated by the quills.

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