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Making a point about porcupine quills
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How Come?
Making a point about porcupine quills
By KATHY WOLLARD Tribune Media Services
Monday, October 13, 2003
How do porcupine quills work? asks Joanna Rosenthal, a student in
Weston, Conn.
From far away, a porcupine looks like a furry basketball with a
sleepy little face. But looks can be deceiving. What appear to be
long strands of ordinary hair, gelled out in a spiky array, are
actually hard-as-plastic quills. A porcupine, its defensive spines
bristling, looks a lot like a waddling cactus or a mobile pincushion.
Some fast porcupine facts: Porcupines are rodents, like beavers,
mice and ...
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