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• The New World porcupines are indigenous to North America and northern South America.
• Some species such as tree squirrels and New World porcupines are agricultural and urban areas.
• In the winter, New World porcupines primarily eat the inner bark of young conifers, among which they prefer Douglas fir.
• In the winter, New World porcupines primarily eat the inner bark of young conifers, among which they prefer Douglas-fir.
• Overall, the animal displays a mix of New World porcupine cranial characters, spiny rat cranial characters, and characters that set it apart from all other rodents.
• The New World porcupines evolved their spines independently ( through convergent evolution ) and are more closely related to several other families of rodents than they are to the Old World porcupines.
• "' Roosmalen's dwarf porcupine "', " Coendou roosmalenorum ", is a porcupine species from the New World porcupine family endemic to northern Brazil.
• The "'Bahia porcupine "', " Coendou insidiosus ", is a New World porcupine species in the family Erethizontidae endemic to the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil.
• The "'New World porcupines "', family "'Erethizontidae "', are large arboreal rodents, distinguished by their order Rodentia, they are quite different and are not closely related.
• The two subfamilies of New World porcupines are mostly smaller ( although the North American porcupine reaches about in length and ), have their quills attached singly rather than grouped in clusters, and are excellent climbers, spending much of their time in trees.
• These rodents are referable to the caviomorph group of rodents, which is unique to the Americas, and includes at least eleven species classified in the families Erethizontidae ( New World porcupines ), Echimyidae ( spiny rats ), and Agoutidae ( agoutis ).