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- What is a spiny animal?
- What do you call an animal with spiny coverings?
- What do you call animals that have hard scales?
- What animal resembles a hedgehog?
- What animal has spikes on its back?
- Are marine animals with spiny Endoskeleton?
- What is the only mammal that can fly?
- What is the hard outer covering of an animal called?
- Which animal has fork?
- Are quills hair?
- Can you eat porcupine?
What is a spiny animal?
Mammals. Spines in mammals include the prickles of hedgehogs and among rodents, the quills of both New World and Old World porcupines as well as the prickly fur of spiny mice, spiny pocket mice and spiny rats. They are also found on afrotherian tenrecs, marsupial spiny bandicoots and on echidnas, of the monotremes.
What do you call an animal with spiny coverings?
Echinoderm, any of a variety of invertebrate marine animals belonging to the phylum Echinodermata, characterized by a hard, spiny covering or skin.
What do you call animals that have hard scales?
Among the mammals that have scales, the most known are pangolins (genus Manis), which are covered by large, hard scales. In addition, musky rat-kangaroos (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus) and scaly-tailed squirrels (family Anomaluridae) have scales on their tails.
What animal resembles a hedgehog?
A tenrec is any species of mammal within the afrotherian family Tenrecidae endemic to Madagascar. Tenrecs are widely diverse; as a result of convergent evolution some resemble hedgehogs, shrews, opossums, rats, or mice. They occupy aquatic, arboreal, terrestrial and fossorial environments.
What animal has spikes on its back?
A pincushion with legs: The hedgehog is a short and stout little mammal that is sometimes called a pincushion with legs! Most mammals have fur or hair that is somewhat flexible and soft. But the hair on the back of a hedgehog is a thick layer of spikes (or modified hairs) known as quills.
Are marine animals with spiny Endoskeleton?
Echinoderms are marine animals with spiny endoskeletons, water-vascular systems, and tube feet; they have radial symmetry as adults.
What is the only mammal that can fly?
6. Bats are the only flying mammal. While the flying squirrel can only glide for short distances, bats are true fliers. A bat's wing resembles a modified human hand — imagine the skin between your fingers larger, thinner and stretched.
What is the hard outer covering of an animal called?
Skin: the outer covering of an animal that protects it from its environment. Keratin: a type of protein that forms many of the epidermal structures in vertebrates, such as hair, nails, claws, feather, and some kinds of scales.
Which animal has fork?
That's why koalas sleep so much—they get very little energy from their diet. Tucked into forks or nooks in the trees, koalas may sleep for 18 to 22 hours. Koalas usually don't drink much water as they get most of their moisture from these leaves. Koalas can even store leaves in their cheek pouches for later.
Are quills hair?
Porcupine quills are hollow, like feathers, and are made from the same material, but then so are hairs, and fingernails, and claws and scales. ... Actually feathers and porcupine quills are made of the same material. Same thing as hair, actually, porcupine quills are modified hairs.
Can you eat porcupine?
At home, you can cook porcupine much like you would venison or small game. It's versatile and delicious. Regardless of whether you're in a survival situation, you'll want to eat everything, especially the organs and brain.
