Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Prehensile-Tailed Porcupine.

These porcupines are from S. America. As you can guess from the name, their tail is prehensile (meaning they can use it as a limb -- like monkeys hanging upside down on their tails). Though there are several species of porcupine, few lives solely in trees and even fewer with the ability to hang upside down. This is one of them.

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