While their diet consists of buds and shoots, leaves and bark, porcupines absolutely crave salt. They gnaw through sweaty canoe paddles and boat oars. If they come across any cloth soaked with sweat, ...

Instantly recognizable from the sharp, spiky quills covering their bodies, porcupines are among the largest rodents on earth. Present on every continent except Antarctica, there are 30 species of ...

Twix the porcupine is a behind-the-scenes animal at the Lake Superior Zoo. He’s not currently on exhibit, instead living at the Animal Care Center. Twix is a Cape porcupine, the largest kind in the ...