New World porcupine

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A New World porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum
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New World porcupine (plural New World porcupines)

  1. Any of the large, arboreal, spiny-furred rodents of the family Erethizontidae, native to forests and wooded regions of North America and northern South America.
    • 2004, Fred Cooke, editor, The Encyclopedia of Animals: A Complete Visual Guide[1], page 232:
      New World porcupines, found in both North and South America, are arboreal and climb trees with agility, aided in some species by a prehensile tail.
    • 2009, Uldis Roze, The North American Porcupine[2], page 206:
      The bizarre structure, shared with the New World porcupines, so impressed Stuart Landry that he argued for a common origin for the New World and Old World hystricomorphs long before the mainstream of biologists felt ready to do so (Pocock 1922; Dathe 1937; Landry 1957
    • 2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Mammalogy, page 227:
      New World porcupines have some arboreal adaptations that are lacking in their more terrestrial Old World counterparts.

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