Old World Porcupine

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An adult porcupine and three juveniles are about to feast on roots

Old World porcupine.

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Name:: Unknown

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Subject:: Animals
Technique:: Lithograph
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: University of Illinois Library, the Internet Archive

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Title:: Brehms Tierleben, vol. 2
Author:: Brehm, Alfred Edmund
Publisher:: Leipzig, Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, 1900
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An adult porcupine and three juveniles are about to feast on roots.
Old World porcupines can be any species of rodents in the family Hystricidae. They are characterized by the thick spines which cover their bodies.

The caption reads in the original German: Stachelschwein.

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