The world's dirtiest man, Amos Haji, who hadn't bathed in over 60 years. He smoked animal feces, eats rotten porcupine, and sometimes smokes 5 regular cigs at a time. He becomes angry at the thought of a bath. Villagers said this was due to an emotional setback in his youth. huffingtonpost.in/entry/a…
HMS Porcupine was blown in half by a German torpedo, the two halves were towed back to the UK and recommissioned as two ships; HMS Pork and HMS Pine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS…
Today I learned about Broken Leg, a collared mountain lion who’s kills over 15 months were recorded as 24 badgers, 1 sheep, 1 dog, 2 porcupines, 8 beavers, 9 coyotes, 2 mule deer, 2 antelope, and 17 elk. themeateater.com/conserva…
After sap suckers drill those neat lines of holes in trees, and many other animals, such as hummingbirds, porcupines, and bats, will feed from them. allaboutbirds.org/guide/Y…
Old Crow is the only Yukon community that cannot be reached by motor vehicle, requiring visitors to fly in. The people of Old Crow are dependent on the Porcupine caribou herd for food and clothing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old…
A mountain lion died five weeks after it consumed a porcupine. If the quills avoid large bones and vital organs, they can work their way straight through an animal with enough time and come out the other side several months after the encounter. The quills embed deeper and deeper through movement outdoorhub.com/mountain-l…
Fishers, a member of the weasel family, are one of the few predators that seek out and kill porcupines and have been documented routinely preying on lynxes, being the primary cause of lynx mortality in the wild. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fis…
Today I learned about Amou Haji, an Iranian man that has not bathed in over 60 years, eats rotten porcupine meat and smokes animal feces from a large pipe. huffpost.com/entry/amou-h…
Fishers, a fierce and furry animal resembling a European polecat, climb trees like a cat but are able, thanks to hind feet that can rotate almost 180 degrees, to climb down headfirst. That trick helps them kill porcupines by attacking the quilled animal's non-quilled head from above. phys.org/news/2018-02-app…
Today I learned about Koda the dog who located and kept a toddler warm and safe when just a day before the child went missing, the toddler's family tried to help remove porcupine quills from Koda's face. theglobeandmail.com/news/…
Nááts'ihch'oh National Park Reserve is named after the Shúhtagot’ine language description of this mountain and it refers to its unique shape, which is sharp and pointed on the top like a porcupine quill. The mountain from which the park takes its name is credited with great powers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C…
The Koosh Ball, the non-bouncing rubber ball once described as a "cross between a porcupine and a bowl of Jell-O", was invented because some kids were not good at playing catch. Its invention is chronicled in the book, The Secret History of Balls. mentalfloss.com/article.p…
Hedgehogs are NOT Closely Related to Porcupines. They are in the Order Eulipotyphla Like Moles and Shrews. While Porcupines are Rodents. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eul…
In 1942, the HMS Porcupine was split in half by a German torpedo. The two sides were salvaged and renamed the HMS Pork and the HMS Pine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS…
Goose bumps appear in "many mammals besides humans; a prominent example [being] porcupines, which raise their quills when threatened, or sea otters when they encounter sharks or other predators." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goo…
Fishers kill porcupines by repeatedly biting them on the face in a process that takes 30 minutes to 1 hour. They then flip them over on to their backs and start eating from the belly to avoid the quills. news.nationalgeographic.c…
Porcupine Quills are dangerous to dogs because once they make contact with the skin, the quills can migrate further in and cause internal damage. dogtime.com/dog-health/do…
The honey badger eats porcupines and poisonous snakes, raids beehives for honey, kidnaps baby cheetahs, and steals food from hungry lions. (pdf) superteacherworksheets.co…
; Porcupines forage in trees but are bad climbers "in one study of porcupine skeletons in museums, 35 percent had healed fractures consistent with falling" nwf.org/news-and-magazine…
Wolverines are so gluttonous that they have been recorded dying after stuffing themselves full of porcupine without taking the time to remove the quills. slate.com/blogs/quora/201…
Kansas State used a real bobcat named Touchdown as its mascot from 1922-1978. Touchdown I was captured in Idaho and donated to K.S.A.C but died from injuries from fighting a porcupine before it arrived in Kansas. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil…
Porcupines have natural antibiotics in their skin, and are the only mammals native to North America to have such protection. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor…
North American porcupines have antibiotics in their skin. This helps prevent infections if they injure themselves with their own quills. They are the only mammal native to North America to have thus adaptation. en.wikipedia.org/w/index.…
Today I learned of a Bloat of Hippos, A Prickle of Porcupines, And a Wisdom of Wombats - Collective nouns for various animals as groups huffingtonpost.com/2014/0…
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