Since the porcupine does not hurry, it saturates in two or three hours. Porcupines eat like all rodents, biting off large chunks and holding them in their front paws. Dexterously manipulating their paws, they are able to extract a tasty morsel from the shell. They live in nature until ten or fifteen years.
The porcupine menu includes up to 150 plant species, both wild and cultivated. More accessible to him are underground parts – roots, bulbs, tubers. Very fond of thistles. Arranges forays into gardens, vegetable gardens, melons and plantations, for which he was known as a pest.
However, the opinions of scientists on this account were divided. For example, Israeli zoologists claim that plants that undermine the porcupine and even partially bite, recover and bear fruit; By digging holes when digging bulbs the plants get more moisture, minerals and even grow more intensively.
Pakistani specialists consider the porcupine to be a notorious pest, biting the grounds of silk and other valuable trees. He inflicts damage and potatoes, although, in general, the losses are small. From watermelons and melons, according to observations of zoologists from Baku, the porcupine eats seeds, and leaves the flesh. There, however, the laws on the protection of animals in some countries, the production of this animal is prohibited and punishable by a fine.
