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It’s porcupine mating season. Keep your eyes and ears open for these prickly rodents. Love is in the air with courtship dances, nose rubbing, and a lot of strange vocalizations, especially after dark. The babies, known as porcupettes, will be born between April and June. Keep a “sharp” eye out and perhaps you will have a serendipitous sighting of a wild porcupine or maybe even a prickle, a little group of porcupines. These herbivores spend a lot of time hanging out in trees, eating, and resting.

Spotted: a porcupine on the summit of Gilmore Peak an hour before sunset! Porcupine can be found across most of North America from shrublands to tundra to forests like here in Acadia. Porcupines are one of the largest rodents in North America, coming second only to the beaver. Porcupines eat a wide range of plant material, and their diet will change seasonably depending on what is available. Porcupines are good climbers and may forage for fresh buds and fruit amongst the trees. Porcupines have a

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