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South African Porcupine at the Artis Royal Zoo (also known as Natura Artis Magistra), Amsterdam (Holland)

The South African porcupine or Cape Porcupine is a species of Old World porcupine native to central and southern Africa. Cape Porcupines are the largest rodents in southern Africa and also the world's largest porcupines. They are similar in appearance to, and only slightly larger than, their close relatives, the Crested Porcupines, and can most easily be distinguished from them by the presence of a band of short white spines along the midline of the rump. The quills of this porcupine can be as long as its body and the hollow spines on the tail are used as a defensive mechanism where the porcupine will shake them to make a loud noise. When defending itself, it will either retreat into its burrow, extending its quills to make it difficult to extract, or it may become aggressive and charge the attacker to stab it with its spines.
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Canon Canon EOS 30D
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85 mm
1/160 s
125
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no, mode: supressed
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Canon
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Canon EOS 30D
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2008:04:10 10:43:00
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7.1
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0.0 EV
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1/160 s
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