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# Google knows all.
'While the males try to dominate each other, the female waits up a tree.'
...
'The female lets the winning male know that she's ready to mate by arching her tail over her back. Because there aren't any quills on the underside of her tail, she can't wound her suitor. And because the male doesn't have quills on his underbelly, he can't hurt her. Says Roze: 'The erection of quills is a sign of fear, anger, or fight--that doesn't happen during porcupine sex.''
(, Tue 6 Jul 2004, 13:28, archived)
# you have a tail?
(, Tue 6 Jul 2004, 13:30, archived)
# You wait up a tree too
with the female porcupines?
(, Tue 6 Jul 2004, 13:30, archived)
# Both!
*climbs tree*

*raises tail*
(, Tue 6 Jul 2004, 13:32, archived)
# *Suddenly wants a cup of tea*
wait there.
(, Tue 6 Jul 2004, 13:35, archived)
# which bit
the hiding up a tree, or the curling over of the tail?

/confused. and, to be honest, slightly afraid
(, Tue 6 Jul 2004, 13:32, archived)
# Don't have spines
on the underside of your belly?
(, Tue 6 Jul 2004, 13:33, archived)