Animals

The March of the Red Crab
A Moth Find a New Home
Suicidal Birds
A leopard and A cheetah
The Spectacular Hornbill
The Antelope with an extraordinary nose
Masquerading Males
Tiny But Powerful
Electric Fishes
Paternal Care
Hairless Cat
Passionate Parrot
Calling Out To Mother
Hot Wheels
Discs On Their Wings
Two-humped Camels
Frozen Frog
Silken Chambers
Earth Pig
Swordsman of the Sea
The Ostrich Trick
Electrifying Meal
Bizarre Turtle
Grey Whales
The Flying Lemur
The Winged Fishing Creature
Llamas
A Different Sort of a Parrot
The Tailless Cat
The Ancestor Of The Rhino
Acquisitive Wood Rats
The Butterflyfish
The Amazing Jumper
The Largest Deer
The Devil’s Coach-Horse
The Porcupine With A Prehensile Tail
The Irritating Fencing
The Acrobatic Otter
The Busy Termite Colony
Superb Mimics
The Canary
Snow Monkey
Jumping Spiders
Glass Lizard
Beetle Rhino
The World’s Smallest Bear
Hygienic Ants
Flat as a Pancake
The Carpet Shark
The Centipede Walk

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Largest Rodent

Rats are rodents and so are squirrels, but the largest rodent in Asia is the porcupine.
There are three species in India. The largest of these and the most widespread is the Crested porcupine found all over the subcontinent in a variety of climes.
It lives in burrows and comes out only at night, when it feeds on vegetable matter of all sorts, but especially the bark of trees, roots, fruits and grain.
Its hair is modified into sharp spines that can cause fearful damage. It drives the spines into the victim by running backwards. This makes even big predators, like tigers, wary of the animal. However, it sometimes falls prey to panthers and jackals. Another enemy is man. There are many people who relish its flesh.

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Last updated on :5/31/2004

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