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...waddling, brown-black-&-yellowish-white, bead-eyed, strong-toothed, sharp-quilled porcupine of the West (erethizon epixanthum) has been protected for years for the same reason that porcupines are protected in the North and East: it is the one animal of the forest which man, lost in the woods without a firearm, could be sure of killing to escape starvation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Porcupine War | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

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