{"id":606694,"date":"2025-04-01T12:02:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T16:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/?p=606694"},"modified":"2025-04-01T14:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:47:56","slug":"can-a-porcupine-shoot-its-quills-at-predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/videos\/can-a-porcupine-shoot-its-quills-at-predators\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a porcupine shoot its quills at predators?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"uTW7gBCgpbM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Can a porcupine shoot its quills at predators?\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uTW7gBCgpbM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meet Quillow, our wonderful prehensile porcupine Animal Ambassador. Quillow has some pretty impressive adaptations: a tail and curved claws help her to climb trees with ease. And what about her sharp quills? Those can be used in self-defense. But can Quillow actually shoot her quills at a predator, or is that just a myth? Watch and find out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" data-id=\"606700\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-606700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine-2-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine-2-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine-2-696x464.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" data-id=\"606701\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-606701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine-1-696x464.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>What animal adaptation would YOU like to have?<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Quillow, our wonderful prehensile porcupine Animal Ambassador.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179644,"featured_media":606760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-606694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-videos","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606709,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606694\/revisions\/606709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}