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Canadian porcupine

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Erethizon dorsatum

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Canadian porcupine (plural Canadian porcupines)

  1. A North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum).
    • 1837, Henry Wolsey Bayfield, Sailing Directions for the Gulf and River of St. Lawrence[1], page 173:
      There are deer (Caribou), bears, wolves, foxes, martens, otters, beavers, and Canadian porcupines in the interior; most of which are hunted for their skins by the few inhabitants of the coast.
    • 1838, Félix de Azara, The Natural History of the Quadrupeds of Paraquay and the River la Plata[2], page 262:
      The fisher is said to live much on frogs in the summer season; but I have been informed that its favourite food is the Canadian porcupine, which it kills by biting on the belly.
    • 1958, Pennsylvania Game Commission, Pennsylvania Game News[3], volume 29, page 99:
      Canadian porcupines may have coats varying from almost black to grizzled brown or "tweedy" slate.

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