“Ehhhhhhhhh. Ehhhhhh. Eh! Ehhhhhhh. Ehhhhhh. Ehh.”
for his human-like sounds and love of corn. In a recent Facebook post in a private wildlife group, one user criticized porcupines for damaging trees when feeding on bark, and added,"They chew and talk to their selves, sounds like munchkins on acid in the forest."
Porcupine expert Uldis Roze starting studying the creatures decades ago after they began eating his house.“If it's a young baby, it'll call for its mother like a human child, and when a baby porcupine nurses, the mother and baby 'sing' to each other,” Roze says. “Another vocalization is in mating time when two males are competing for the same female. They fight, and the males scream. It's like an ambulance siren through the forest. You hear it for a long distance.
Roze became fascinated with porcupines back in the 1970s while building a cabin with his wife in the Catskills. The creatures started eating the plywood — an excellent source of sodium, he notes — and he began to wonder, “Why is this animal eating our house? What do we know about this animal?” Roze admitted he wasn’t very familiar with California porcupines and suggested contacting a different expert — Cara Appel — to learn more about their distribution here and behavior during wildfires. Appel is a PhD student at Oregon State University who did her master’s research on porcupines at Cal Poly Humboldt, which included general research on their distribution and status in the northwestern United States.
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