Q: How do porcupines have sex?
A: Very carefully.
Have you ever seen one of these things? I saw one in Zion National Park as a boy. I was on a trail and it ran up out of a dry stream bed and up a slope. Actually waddled is a better word. They don’t move very fast at all. It is as if they are not worried about you as a predator. They are also very fat! Much fatter than you might think they are. It was definitely a shock to see a porcupine. They are not very common out here in the West. One reason is that in Sierras, the Forest Service has been killing them with poison for many years because porcupines kill trees. The result is that there are not many porcupines left in the Sierras.
