{"id":1731,"date":"2022-06-08T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2022-06-08T09:07:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T13:07:39","slug":"porcupine-quills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/omg_animals\/porcupine-quills\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike Champions of the World!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the spikiest animal you know? You could say hedgehog, pufferfish, echidna, even a sea urchin, but nothing compares to the North American porcupine! With over <strong>30,000 quills<\/strong>, these porcupines are the spike champions of the world!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11085 aligncenter\" title=\"porcupine\" src=\"\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine.jpeg\" alt=\"porcupine\" width=\"575\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine.jpeg 639w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine-290x300.jpeg 290w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine-405x420.jpeg 405w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/porcupine-289x300.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p>These quills give the porcupine superb protection against predators. They come off easily and have barbs that hook on skin and fur. Once a barb is hooked, it gets pushed deeper and deeper as the predator moves. Talk about ouch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the spikiest animal you know? You could say hedgehog, pufferfish, echidna, even a sea urchin, but nothing compares to the North American porcupine! With over 30,000 quills, these porcupines are the spike champions of the world! These quills give the porcupine superb protection against predators. They come off easily and have barbs that hook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[931,13,409],"tags":[413,132,120,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-1731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all","8":"category-omg_animals","9":"category-omg-facts","10":"tag-pictures","11":"tag-porcupine","12":"tag-record-breaker","13":"tag-united-nations"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592394,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions\/592394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}