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What animals can kill porcupines and how do they do it?

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I can tell you about porcupines from Canada, and ecidnas from Australia. Porcupines are a larger animal and they don't exist on ants like ecidnads. Porcupines face enemies quills facing upwards and outwards. It is possible for a murder of crows to flip a porcupine over. read more

Porcupines are a larger animal and they don't exist on ants like echidnas. Porcupines face enemies quills facing upwards and outwards. It is possible for a murder of crows to flip a porcupine over. I have seen the crows rip out its gut and its eyes, then kill it and eat most of the body. Wolves in a pack can do this to porcupines. read more

Porcupines have often been said to propel their quills to hit a potential predator, but this is a myth and they cannot do this, but the damage that they can cause to a domestic garden will often drive people to want to kill these animals. read more

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