Curated OER
The Sharp Adaptations of Porcupines
In this porcupine worksheet, students learn about how porcupines adapt to their lives in the woods and how they use their quills. After reading a short text and analyzing the labeled pictures, students answer 3 short answer questions.
Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software: Porcupines
Some pictures and facts about porcupines, their appearance, and behavior.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Porcupines
An in-depth description of porcupines, including their classification, appearance, habitat, adaptations, reproduction, diet, and other interesting facts.
Canadian Wildlife Federation
Hinterland Who's Who: Porcupine
Canadian Wildlife site features the porcupine. Highlights its habitats and habits, range, feeding and breeding characteristics.
PBS
Pbs Nature Critter Guide: Porcupine
This PBS Critter Guide site tells you how many quills the average porcupine has as well as other facts about this creature's natural history in text and pictures.
Regents of the University of Michigan
Animal Diversity Web: North American Porcupine
Comprehensive reference information about the North American porcupine, including taxonomic classification, habitat, physical description, specimens, and other details.
Royal Canadian Geographical Society
Canadian Geographic: Animal Facts: Porcupine
Learn fast facts, physiology, habitats, behaviors, and range of the porcupine.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Temperate Deciduous Forests
NatureWorks offers some fascinating information about the Temperate Deciduous Forests. Students and teachers will learn what makes these forests special, what animals live in this biome, what plants grow in this biome, and more.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: North American Porcupine
Check out this educational resource to find out about the North American Porcupine. This site features information ranging from characteristics, life cycle, behavior, range, habitat, and diet.
Woodland Park Zoo
Woodland Park Zoo: Porcupine
Resource features the porcupine. Provides a brief description as well as additional information on its classification, range, life cycle and more.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Kids: North American Porcupine
Colorful resource for learning useful facts about North American porcupines with photographs as well as information regarding their physical characteristics and unique features.
Orpheus Books
Q Files: Rodents
This site provides all kinds of information regarding rodents, small animals with short legs and a tail that can be long or barely visible. The rodent family includes mice, rats and squirrels, as well as beavers, dormice, lemmings and...
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Porcupine (Erethizon Dorsaum)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the porcupine. Discusses where they are found, physical characteristics, diet, how they protect themselves from predators, and reproduction.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Prehensile Tailed Porcupine
As part of the Amazonia exhibit at the National Zoo, this site highlights various facts and interesting information on the Prehensile-tailed Porcupine. In addition to several pictures, the site provides a description and information on...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: North American Porcupine
North American Porcupines are large, slow-moving, tree-climbing rodents, protected from predators by their formidable quills. In winter, they eat the bark, phloem, and cambium of trees, particularly conifers. Learn more about the...