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PREHENSILE-TAILED PORCUPINE Coendou prehensilis
Armed with a back full of white, black and yellow spines the Prehensile-tailed Porcupine is ready for anybody who is thinking of taking a bite out of him! An arboreal species the tail acts as a fifth limb enabling him to manoeuvre his way around the canopy as easily as any monkey - though at a more tranquil pace! Spending much of the day curled in a ball on a canopy branch the Porcupine is easily overlooked! This is the larger of Paraguay´s two porcupine species.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPMAM1150PH) Specimen dorsal, MNHNP, Departamento Central (Paul Smith May 2013)
FIGURE 2 - (FPMAM1151PH) Same specimen head detail (Paul Smith May 2013)
FIGURE 3 - (FPMAM1152PH) Same specimen ventral (Paul Smith May 2013)
FIGURE 4 - (FPMAM1153PH) Same specimen spine detail (Paul Smith May 2013)