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Are hedgehogs related to porcupines?
No. Although they are both placental mammals, and both have sharp spines, porcupines are in the rodent family, but hedgehogs are not.
What are the 23 different species of porcupines?
Amarican,African,Asian,Eroup,forest and jungle porcupines
Are porcupines egg laying mammals?
No. Porcupines are placental mammals, and give birth to live young. The only egg-laying mammals are the platypus and the echidna.
Are long beaked echidnas and porcupines from the same family?
Not at all. Echidnas and porcupines are not even remotely related. Echidnas are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals. porcupines are placental mammals, a quite different order of mammals.
Are porcupines marsupials or egg-layers?
Neither: they are placental mammals, meaning the young are fully developed via the placenta, and not externally, in the pouch. The only egg laying mammals (monotremes) are found in Australia, and one species of echidna is also found in New Guinea.
Are there porcupines in Australia?
No. Porcupines are not found in Australia. Australia has no placental mammals even similar to the porcupine. The closest animal in appearance is the short-beaked echidna, but the echidna is not even remotely related to the porcupine as it is a monotreme, or egg-laying mammal.
Are hedgehog and porcupine the same?
No. Although they are both placental mammals, and both have sharp spines, porcupines are in the rodent family (from the order rodentia), but hedgehogs are from the family insectivora.Porcupines are also much larger than hedgehogs.
Are rabbits placental mammals or monotremes?
A rabbit is a placental mammal.
What do porcupines see?
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What is the plural possessive for porcupines?
The plural possessive form for "porcupines" would be "porcupines'." This indicates that something belongs to multiple porcupines. In this case, the apostrophe comes after the plural "s" because the word is already plural, so we just add the apostrophe to show possession.
Are ants Placental?
No. There are no insects which are placental.
Were porcupines introduced to Australia?
There are no porcupines in Australia, nor have there ever been porcupines in Australia.
