Erethizontidae Gallery

AN AUSTRALIAN ECHIDNA WALKS ACROSS A TRACK IN SYDNEY

An echidna, native to Australia, casts a shadow as it walks over a track in
Sydney's Taronga Zoo August 4, 2003. Scientists say that the echidna, which
has been called a freak of nature, has often been the victim of mistaken
identity with the hedgehog and North American spiny porcupine but is in fact
one of the world's clearest examples of Convergent evolution - the emergence
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Aerial Porcupine Caribou herd migrating leaving

Aerial Porcupine Caribou herd migrating leaving trails deep into the ground of fragile tundra (this coastal plain is threatened by potential oil and gas development from the expanding Prudhoe Bay Oil fields) Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Aerial image of Porcupine Caribou herd migrating in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)

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Jaguar (Panthera onca) male, hunting Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)

Jaguar (Panthera onca) male, hunting Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris). The capybara while jumping away has cut the nose of the Jaguar with its toemail. Cuiaba River, Pantanal Matogrossense National Park, Pantanal, Brazil

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