If you see a little animal in the forest all over Colorado, it may be a porcupine. The porcupine has yellow quills and a brown body. Baby porcupines weigh one pound when they are born and are 10 inches across. Mother porcupines can have one baby at a time. Baby porcupines stay with their mother for about six months then they move out to a new area. Porcupines spend most of the time in aspen or ponderosa pine trees eating leaves, seeds and buds in the summer. It will also eat tender plants and grasses on the ground.

I got my information from THE PORCUPINE by Carl Green

High up in a tree you might see a huge, moving pinecone. It is probably a porcupine.

Porcupines can grow to be 3 feet long and 9 inches high. The female porcupine is slightly smaller. It will eat bark and plants. Berries are its dessert. Their predators are grizzly bears, mountain lions, and humans.

The porcupine is the largest rodent in America besides the beaver. If you see a porcupine just don't touch it because it has sharp quills and it will hurt. In the fall porcupines mate, they sing little songs and dance little dances for each other.

I got my information from a book called THE PORCUPINE by Carl R Green.