A man who stopped at a viewpoint on the side of the road in Simon's Town, Cape Town, to collect porcupine quills on Wednesday morning turned out to be a life saver for a woman whose car fell 100 meters into the ravine below.
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Early spring, before the trees fully leaf out, is an ideal time for spotting tree-dwelling porcupines who often move into the upper canopy of trees to eat and rest during the daytime. They commonly venture to the outermost or highest branch tips to break off newly budding twigs to eat. Trembling aspen and young hemlock bark are favorite foods for porcupines, but they will consume bark from a wide range of tree types and supplement their diet with fruits and ground dwelling plants and shrubs. While slow moving and lumbering on the ground, porcupines are adept climbers, alternately using their front and back claws to grasp the wood as they pull themselves upward.
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Porcupines are quite common in Alaska, but for most of the year they commonly visible. One may see quite a number of them while driving in early spring. They come to the edge of the highway for a couple of reasons, but mostly to lick the remains of salt left from winter sanding. Also, along the relatively warm asphalt, there are the first green shoots of summer. The remainder of the year, they eat a lot of flowers and the walls of your plywood recreational cabin. Porcupines don’t move much in the winter. Their average range covers about 300 acres. Their winter diet is mostly the inner cambium layer the white inner bark of spruce and birch. They will also eat quite a number of white spruce needles.