{"id":9090,"date":"2015-04-18T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T05:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=9090"},"modified":"2015-02-28T15:58:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T20:58:52","slug":"atozchallenge-porcupine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=9090","title":{"rendered":"#AtoZChallenge – Porcupine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The porcupine is a prickly mammal belonging to the rodent family. It eats leaves, herbs, twigs and green plants and in the winter, the North American variety will eat bark.<\/p>\n

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The porcupine is a prickly mammal belonging to the rodent family. It eats leaves, herbs, twigs and green plants and in the winter, the North American variety will eat bark. The porcupine doesn’t ‘throw’ its quills like once thought but they tend to brush off. 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