Porcupines Face a Poaching Crisis — and It’s All Because of What’s in Their Stomachs

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By The RevelatorAug 1, 2020, 7:25 am324 pts
By John R. Platt A porcupine's diet is wide, varied, and a little hard to digest. A lifetime of grasses, herbs, bark and other vegetation can leave little bits of indigestible matter behind in a porcupine's digestive tract, where they occasionally congeal into a hard ball called a bezoar. That sounds…

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