Jump to species: Abalone, Pinto Albatross, Black-footed Albatross, Short-tailed Bat, Little Brown Myotis Bat, Silver-haired Bat, Western Long-Eared Bear, Black Bear, Brown Bear, Polar Beaver Bison, Plains Bison, Wood Burbot Caribou Char, Arctic Char, Dolly Varden Char, Lake Chickadee, Black-capped Chickadee, Boreal Chickadee, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Gray-headed Cisco, Arctic Cisco, Bering Cisco, Least Clam, Geoduck Clam, Littleneck Clam, Razor Coyote Crab, Blue King Crab, Dungeness Crab, Golden King Crab, Red King Crab, Tanner Crane, Sandhill Curlew, Eskimo Deer, Mule Deer, Sitka Black-tailed Dipper, American Dolphin, Pacific white-sided Duck, Harlequin Eagle, Bald Eagle, Golden Eider, Spectacled Eider, Steller's Elk, Roosevelt Ermine Eulachon Fisher Fox, Arctic Fox, Red Frog, Columbia Spotted Goat, Mountain Goose, Canada Goose, Emperor Goshawk, Northern Grayling, Arctic Grouse, Ruffed Grouse, Sharp-tailed Grouse, Sooty Hagfish Halibut, Pacific Hare, Alaska Hare, Snowshoe Herring, Pacific Knot, Red Lamprey, Arctic Lamprey, Pacific Lamprey, Western River Lemming, Northern Collared Lingcod Loon, Yellow-billed Lynx Mackerel, Atka Marmot, Alaska Marmot, Hoary Marmot, Woodchuck Marten, American Marten, Pacific Mink, American Moose Murrelet, Kittlitz's Murrelet, Marbled Muskox Muskrat Newt, Roughskin Octopus, Giant Pacific Osprey Otter, Northern Sea Otter, River Owl, Barred Owl, Boreal Pika, Collared Pike, Northern Pollock, Walleye Porcupine, North American Porpoise, Dall's Porpoise, Harbor Ptarmigan, Rock Ptarmigan, Willow Raven, Common Reindeer, Santa's Rockfish, Black Rockfish, Yelloweye Sablefish Salmon, Chinook Salmon, Chum Salmon, Coho Salmon, Pink Salmon, Sockeye Scallop, Weathervane Sea Cucumber, Red Sea Lion, Steller Sea Urchin, Red Seal, Bearded Seal, Harbor Seal, Northern Fur Seal, Ringed Shark, Salmon Sheefish Sheep, Dall Shrimp, Coonstripe Shrimp, Northern Shrimp, Sidestriped Shrimp, Spot Smelt, Longfin Smelt, Pond Smelt, Rainbow Squirrel, Arctic Ground Squirrel, Northern Flying Squirrel, Red Swan, Trumpeter Toad, Western Trout, Cutthroat Trout, Steelhead / Rainbow Turtle, Green Sea Turtle, Leatherback Sea Turtle, Loggerhead Sea Turtle, Olive Ridley Sea Vole, Meadow Vole, Red-Backed Walrus, Pacific Whale, Beluga Whale, Gray Whale, Humpback Whale, Killer Whale, North Pacific Right Whale, Sperm Whitefish, Broad Whitefish, Humpback Wolf Wolverine Printer friendly North American Porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) More Resources Description Uses Management More Resources General Information North American Porcupine — Wildlife Notebook Series (PDF 47 kB) Sounds Wild episode: "Porcupine's antibiotic quills" Wildlife Viewing Porcupine Articles and Bulletins Alaska Fish and Wildlife News article: "Porcupine Research- How Tough Critters Survive Alaska Winters (AFWN article)" Killed by a quill (AFWN article) Facebook Twitter Google+ Reddit
