brush-tailed porcupine
atherurus latin

Brush-tailed porcupines live in small family groups of about eight members.

The brush-tailed porcupines live in forests, usually at high elevations.

The brush-tailed porcupines have bodies covered in quills just like their new world relatives.

The African brush-tailed porcupine has a long pregnancy compared to other rodents: 110 days at the longest.

Unlike most other porcupines, the brush-tailed porcupine has lighter and smaller quills.

The brush-tailed porcupine is mostly herbivorous.

As with all porcupines, the brush-tailed porcupine would back into the attacker and inflict damage with its quills.

The meat of the African Brush-tailed Porcupine is very popular and is consumed in large quantities.

The biology and use of the African brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus, Gray, 1842) as a food animal.

The brush-tailed porcupines are a group of Old World porcupines in the genus Atherurus.

There are also reports of more unlikely prey items, such as tree monkeys, the brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus) and even the small royal antelope (Neotragus).

The genus Atherurus includes the brush-tailed porcupines which are much smaller animals, with long tails tipped with bundles of flattened spines.

The latter species, the African Brush-tailed Porcupine (Atherurus africanus), is often hunted for its meat.

Ikki - An Asiatic Brush-tailed Porcupine (mentioned only)

African Brush-tailed Porcupine (Atherurus africanus)

Confirmed prey species include hog deer, slow loris, brush-tailed porcupine, Malayan pangolin and Indochinese ground squirrel.

They are: tree squirrels, rope squirrels, dormice, Gambian giant pouched rats, brush-tailed porcupines and striped mice.

Asiatic Brush-tailed Porcupine (Atherurus macrourus)

The Asiatic Brush-tailed Porcupine, Atherurus macrourus, is a species of rodent in the Hystricidae family.

The African Brush-Tailed Porcupine (Atherurus africanus) is a species of rat-like Old World porcupine called "brush-tailed porcupines".

At the beginning of the outbreak, the centers and the Food and Drug Administration banned importing of all African rodents and the sale or distribution of six species from the April shipment: tree squirrels, rope squirrels, dormice, Gambian giant pouched rats, brush-tailed porcupines and striped mice.

There are two species of Atherurus, an Asian and an African variety.

This species is externally very similar to Atherurus, but differing from the members of that genus in many cranial characteristics.

The brush-tailed porcupines are a group of Old World porcupines in the genus Atherurus.

The genus Atherurus includes the brush-tailed porcupines which are much smaller animals, with long tails tipped with bundles of flattened spines.

The African Brush-Tailed Porcupine (Atherurus africanus) is a species of rat-like Old World porcupine called "brush-tailed porcupines".

A porcupine is any of 29 species of rodent belonging to the families Erethizontidae (genera: Coendou, Sphiggurus, Erethizon, Echinoprocta, and Chaetomys) or Hystricidae (genera: Atherurus, Hystrix, and Trichys).