**Study on mysterious Amazon porcupine can help its protection**

Porcupines of the genus Coendou are arboreal, herbivorous, nocturnal rodents distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas. Most of what we currently know on them is restricted to species that occur near urban areas, and we still have a lot to learn about these fascinating animals.

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-mysterious-amazon-porcupine.html