🚨BEWARE: PRICKLY!🚨
We’re talking QUILLS! Quills are modified hair made of keratin and help protect porcupines from predators. Don’t worry, they’ll give a warning first! Feet stamping, rattling the hollow quills on their tails, hissing, and snorting all alert a predator that danger is coming. Despite the myths, porcupines can’t shoot their quills. If the predator isn’t deterred by the warnings, the porcupine will charge backward, using their quills like hundreds of daggers!
(📷: Zookeeper Lauren)
