I really like getting emails from readers. And I also like it when I can help folks when they are believing things about fish and wildlife that isn’t true. Which brings me to today’s column that ...

Jeff TysonFor the Budgeteer News Many people hold strong opinions and beliefs about porcupines, but few have ever had an up-close experience to confirm or refute those views. At the Audubon Center of ...

This is a column unlike any I have ever written. It is filled with miscellaneous facts, most of which I have managed to check out for correctness. But I wrote it for the humor as well as the ...

It took me many years to become aware of just how wonderful porcupines are. I remember always just thinking "quills" when I thought of a porcupine, in the context of having to extract them from my dog ...

Porcupines, despite being slow-moving creatures, are being spotted in several new parts of Pennsylvania. “What we see over a relatively short period of time is that porcupines are indeed slowly ...

Porcupines are typecast as prickly, and understandably so. Those long, sharp quills are hard to miss, and they tend to be the main takeaway from any interaction with a porcupine — both figuratively ...