How do porcupines mate?

amb said:
Love always find a way. :D
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The article continues: "And, just like the porn videos you download, the female porcupine also pretends to enjoy the male urine all over her."
 
How long does it take for turtles, or snails to have complete sex? And how do turtles do it? :D
 
I love that this was a pretty interesting question and that it had absurdly AWESOME answers.
 
I admire the patience and perseverance of zoologists etc who took the trouble to find out that the female porcupine is only ready for mating for half a day a year. It must have been a somewhat tedious study; and in fact I can't imagine how the studywould have been set up.
 
SusanB-M1 said:
I admire the patience and perseverance of zoologists etc who took the trouble to find out that the female porcupine is only ready for mating for half a day a year. It must have been a somewhat tedious study; and in fact I can't imagine how the studywould have been set up.
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Most of my girl friends have been that way.
And usually I'm out of town that half-day.
 
I Ratant said:
Martens know how to flip the porky on its back and go in through the belly.
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You're probably talking about the animal that North Americans call a fisher. The behavior you cite probably occurs after the porky is already dead and the fisher moves to eat it. The kill is accomplished with bites to the face and head.

But the Minnesota DNR website still states...

Fun facts
The fisher hunts in trees, can kill porcupines (by flipping the prickly animal over and attacking its soft belly).
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The female fishers are pregnant for 350 days of each year.
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Whoa.
 
SusanB-M1 said:
I admire the patience and perseverance of zoologists etc who took the trouble to find out that the female porcupine is only ready for mating for half a day a year. It must have been a somewhat tedious study; and in fact I can't imagine how the studywould have been set up.
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You can use one porcupine, and have lots of patience, or use lots of porcupines, and just keep tabs on them....

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Sure these porcupine watchers are not some sort of weirdos who get their kicks from watching such animals mate?????:D
 
amb said:
Sure these porcupine watchers are not some sort of weirdos who get their kicks from watching such animals mate?????:D
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We've just gotten a dedicated hunting and fishing channel locally (it is Wild TV, out of Canada, and rebranded as "NZs only hunting and fishing channel").

They have ads for deer oestrus urine!

Apparently, they collect female deer urine either immediately before, immediately after, or *during* mating!

And they collect enough of it to a) bottle it b) advertise it on television and c) presumably, make a profit doing so.

It is used as a stag (or "buck") attractant.

My question is, apart from "for the love of God - why????", how do they actually manage to do this? And how do you get people to apply for the job???
 
In the late '40s, my Dad was in the Cavalry at Fort Riley Kansas.
They still had horses.
On Sunday mornings, there'd be "fox hunts" with the riders in their hunting pinks and the pack of dogs.
No foxes around, so a lead rider would lay out the course dragging a coyote urine soaked rag, and the hounds and riders would follow soon after.
It would end up at the Officer's Club for a boozy lunch.
Lots of war and hunting songs.. one of which was...
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Drink, Puppy, drink
(G.J. Whyte-Melville)

Here's to the fox in the earth below the rocks
and here's to the line that we follow,
and here's to the hound with his nose upon the ground,
tho' merrily we whoop and we holloa!

Chorus: Then drink, puppy, drink,
and let ev'ry puppy drink,
that is old enough to lap and to swallow;
for he'll grow into a hound,
so we'll pass the bottle 'round,
and merrily we'll whoop and we'll holloa.

Here's to the horse and to the rider too, of course,
and here's to the rally o' the hunt, boys;
Here's a health to every friend, who can struggle to the end,
and here's to the Tally-ho in front, boys.

Here's to the gap and the timber that we rap,
here's to the white thorn, and the black, too;
And here's to the pace that puts life into the chase,
and the fence that gives a moment to the pack, too.

Oh! The pack is staunch and true, now they run from scent to view,
and it's worth the risk to life and limb and neck, boys;
to see them drive and stoop till they finish with 'Who-whoop',
forty minutes on the grass without a check, boys.
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Great times were had by all.
 
How do porcupines mate? Very painful.

The questions in the science forum are always fascinating. :)
 
I've often wondered how it's done in species with long tails as thick at the base as the torso is, like most lizards...
 
amb said:
How long does it take for turtles, or snails to have complete sex? And how do turtles do it? :D
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Male turtles have a dent on the rear half of their abdominal plate, this lets them get close enough to angle underneath the female's shell.
 
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