We then rented sea kayaks and took off through the Porcupines — Burnt Porcupine, Bald Porcupine, Sheep Porcupine and Long Porcupine — an easy and beautiful kayak tour, where porpoises and seals surprised us, as did the scale of the park, at 47,000 acres.
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The lightest brush of a porcupine quill from a bustle?
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That started as a porcupine, but it became my dog.
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She's a porcupine with shiny quills stylishly parted to one side.
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Polar bears and porcupine caribou head there to den and calve.
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This is Teddy the porcupine, vociferously enjoying a bunch of pumpkins.
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But I'm reminded of the dog making love to the porcupine.
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You hug a porcupine from the front, not the back, obviously.
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If you've never heard a porcupine before, prepare to lose your mind.
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In Porcupine, the precinct was down to three ballots before more arrived.
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"Porcupine Racetrack" and stuff like that would have gone viral so quickly.
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That strategy, endorsed by Tsai Ing-wen, the president, embraces the porcupine ethos.
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A satellite image shows Porcupine Glacier a year before the iceberg broke off.
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A man appeared in a silicon jacket covered in spikes like porcupine quills.
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It's not a cowering, timid fear; it's more a dark, resentful porcupine fear.
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The pearls are worn with Kate's eclipse porcupine hoop earrings ($1,200), also from Annoushka.
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The Porcupine Glacier itself, now much smaller, will continue to evolve as temperatures fluctuate.
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The prehensile-tailed porcupine is the first of its kind born at the zoo.
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A porcupine can be a pretty easygoing pet — but it can also be prickly.
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I have even (quite accidentally) taken a piss on a porcupine in the dark.
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The first animal he got as a boy, with a bow, was a porcupine.
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The first of these, "Henry," is about a porcupine who wants to make friends.
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Just in the past week, a rotund porcupine, who seemed equally startled by me.
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Of course, your job would be much easier if your child was a baby porcupine.
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It's about a little boy who will hug anything, whether a tree or a porcupine.
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ScarJo voices Ash the porcupine in the film and also lends her voice to the soundtrack.
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In Wampanoag folklore, the Pukwudgie is a vicious, goblin-like creature covered in porcupine-like quills.
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It's home to polar bears and musk oxen, and is the calving ground for porcupine caribou.
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America, Taiwan's closest military ally, has urged the island to move further towards a "porcupine strategy".
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The thing that I've always told writers on staff is to write her like a porcupine.
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We want to continue to live our cultural and traditional life with the Porcupine Caribou herd.
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On top of that, the 197,85033-strong Porcupine Caribou herd (so named for the Porcupine River along its migration route) travels to the coastal plain to give birth to calves in relative safety from insects and predators, and to obtain the nourishment necessary to migrate south again.
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Porcupine Lake premiered at TIFF in 2017 and will be made more widely available sometime this year.
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American arms, even big, expensive ones at odds with the porcupine philosophy, also serve a diplomatic purpose.
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Read more: A police dog was stuck with 200 porcupine quills during the pursuit of a suspect
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With more than 90 miles of trails, Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park is Michigan's largest state park.
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After several deep wounds to its face, the porcupine grows weak, loses its footing and — match over.
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CNN spoke to an official inspector, Annette Red Tomahawk, at the Standing Rock reservation's Porcupine voting precinct.
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You can just start walking around with your armor, like a porcupine, which your armor already up.
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The Porcupine caribou are their nutritional and cultural staple, and they have long fought for their protection.
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The baby porcupine would get up right after birth, and follow its mom immediately and be self-sufficient.
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Veterinary and animal care workers are now bottle-feeding the young porcupine, and they say he&aposs thriving.
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Folded pieces of porcupine quills are used to decorate clothing, for example, and doing so is extremely laborious.
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Thankfully, we have Porcupine Lake, a modest Canadian indie which features two best friends who form a romance.
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Glaciologist Mauri Pelto noticed the iceberg while analyzing space-based photos of Porcupine Glacier in northern British Columbia.
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Near an area called Porcupine Wash we pulled over and dashed out among the shrubs and smoke trees.
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They fear it would disturb the migration of porcupine caribou, animals they have hunted for centuries for food.
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The second story, "Fishing," centers on Vernon's pal Porcupine and his anxiety about not knowing how to fish.
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A few hours later we were asked to join a hunting party to track down porcupine -- a rare delicacy.
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And the view from the top of Cadillac Mountain, with the Porcupine Islands off in the distance, is wonderful.
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Its magical abilities include disappearing and reappearing, partial or complete transformation into a porcupine or cougar, and creating fire.
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The zoo in Chicago&aposs western suburbs says the male baby porcupine, known as a porcupette, was born July 2.
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Some puffers, like the porcupine fish, become a bona fide spike ball, moving through the water seemingly out of control.
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The baby porcupine was born at The Chicago Zoological Society's Brookfield Zoo to mother Lucia, 5, and father Eddie, 4.
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To replace the mom's maternal instincts, the zoo stepped in and started caring for and bottle-feeding the baby porcupine.
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Hundreds upon hundreds of porcelain shards unite into curious sculptures that look part porcupine, part dragonfruit, and part coral reef.
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The Porcupine Caribou Herd, upon which the Gwich'in subsist, return here year after year to give birth to their young.
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For centuries, the Porcupine caribou herd have followed the same migratory route and calved their young in the coastal plain.
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I was to see many of these animals in the days to follow, but the porcupine-like echidna remained elusive.
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The fisher must encounter the porcupine on open ground, at which point it can start running circles around its quarry.
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Yes, it's possible to pet a porcupine, and a number of states allow you to keep one as a pet.
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The Porcupine caribou herd migrates to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge-Coastal Plain every year where they will give birth.
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Some puffers, like the porcupine fish, become a bona fide spike ball, moving through the water seemingly out of control.
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Kalunde's grandfather, a healer, once watched a sick porcupine eat the roots of a plant known to be quite poisonous.
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The Porcupine caribou herd, which migrates across the refuge, is sacred to the Gwich'in Indian Nation, who live in the region.
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It is called Porcupine Real Estate, after a favourite libertarian animal, honoured as a beast which is dangerous only when attacked.
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One whole page is filled with an oversize, hunched, anxious Porcupine, little paws seeming to flex and clench with existential dread.
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According to an invitation posted on the newspaper's website, the event will include a golf outing at Ellison's Porcupine Creek home.
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Mine come into the house, shudder a few times and lose their leaves faster than a startled porcupine drops its needles.
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The 32-year-old actress lends her voice to the upcoming animated feature Sing, in which she plays a porcupine named Ash.
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While the other animals are welded to concrete bases, the porcupine was merely grounded with stakes, making it very easy to steal.
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He looks at the pavement and sees a very amusing sight: the cobblestones are standing upright like the quills of a porcupine.
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It's home to polar bears, musk oxen, and migratory birds from six continents, and is the calving ground for the porcupine caribou.
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When the porcupine recovered, Kalunde's grandfather began experimenting with the root in small doses, first on himself and then on fellow villagers.
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"I would be a lot less afraid of it if I just knew what it was called," says a computer-generated porcupine.
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Critics warn that oil and gas development in ANWR would wreak havoc on populations of Porcupine caribou, polar bears and migratory birds.
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The two live at the Wildlife Learning Center in Sylmar, California; Walter is the second-oldest porcupine to live in captivity, Antin says.
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While shooting a video of a porcupine in Montana in August 2014, Peterson asked the animal's handler why he was wearing leather gloves.
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Shandling, who died last month, plays Ikki, the porcupine, a character from Kipling's original text that was left out of the 363 version.
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The fisher tries to dart in and bite the porcupine's vulnerable face; the porcupine pivots to turn its shielded back toward its attacker.
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Haas became friendly with Ellison during his playing career, staying at Ellison's Porcupine Creek estate near the tournament, where Nadal has also stayed.
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To suggest that winter-specific exploration will negatively affect the Porcupine herd's summer calving season is contrary to logic and unsupported by science.
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Another character — an edgy rocker porcupine — must strike out on her own when her boyfriend and bandmate gets cozy with another spiky-haired lady.
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After the land was cleared, four threatened or protected species were rescued, including a type of porcupine, a boa constrictor and a rare iguana.
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If you cast your mind back a decade or so, you'll recall that Cabrera is the porcupine-haired crooner who once dated Ashlee Simpson.
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The area is important for wildlife, most notably as the calving grounds for the Porcupine Caribou Herd, which roams northeastern Alaska and northwestern Canada.
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It is a vast roadless tract, home to migrating birds, the large nomadic porcupine caribou herd and the winter dens of pregnant polar bears.
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" As Jamie Murphy, who keeps rescue ponies on her place in Porcupine, N.D., said, "We're kind of out here in the middle of nowhere.
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Also, fun fact: A few years ago, I met an African Crested Porcupine and it was one of the neediest, cuddliest animals you could imagine.
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Obama hit up billionaire Larry Ellison's private course at Porcupine Creek Ranch in Rancho Mirage Saturday with a few friends and secret service in tow.
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On a Friday evening after a day of work earlier this year, the students headed to a powwow at Porcupine, on the Standing Rock Reservation.
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Living animals tend to have tails with weapons that are made of keratin, like the quills of a porcupine or the scales of a pangolin.
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In addition to Sunnylands, they played at Porcupine Creek, a 19-hole course at a nearby estate owned by Larry Ellison, the billionaire founder of Oracle.
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Katrina Shangreaux, 30, of Porcupine on the Pine Ridge Reservation, pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder in the July 2016 death of Kylen, 2.
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When he gets the go-ahead, he has some sweet slut-shaming words for Andrea — something about having pricks stuck out of her like a porcupine.
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People can spend decades crafting their regalia, which is typically made of eagle feathers (objects of great cultural and spiritual meaning), porcupine quills, or glass beads.
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Gibson's exhibition explores the material histories and futures of Indigenous handcrafts such as Southeastern river cane basket weaving, Algonquian birch bark biting, porcupine quillwork, and more.
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His 1925 essay, "Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine" (the animal perished after Lawrence, who disliked guns, shot it), deserves to be more widely anthologized.
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I laughed out loud watching her drive down the road in her little porcupine hatchback, which was like some Fury Road version of Garth Algar's Mirthmobile.
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Sonya Kelliher-Combs's "Guarded Secrets" (2015) is a collection of cell-like sculptures made from sheep rawhide and porcupine quills that look both delicate and threatening.
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At the sprawling, semi-enclosed market in Langfang, an electronics manufacturing hub south of Beijing, one vendor advertised a live crocodile ($550) and a porcupine ($115).
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They see the proposal as a threat to the ecosystem and wildlife of the pristine refuge, especially the porcupine caribou, and a threat to the climate.
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" The blues singer Bobby Rush, winning his first Grammy at age 83 for best traditional blues album, for "Porcupine Meat," said: "This is my 374th record.
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Like Prudhoe Bay and its Central Arctic caribou herd once was, ANWR's Porcupine caribou herd is the fear monger's tool of choice for anti-development propaganda.
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The new prehensile-tailed porcupine, with a small, hook-like tail, will join his parents in the Hamill Family Play Zoo at approximately 10 weeks of age.
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He told BuzzFeed News that threats to porcupine caribou on the US side of the border will affect communities like his, elsewhere along the caribou's migratory path.
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Some were building barricades with steel pipes on the approach roads, facing outwards like a porcupine, to keep the police back, and scouring nearby streets for railings.
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"We had recorded his voice for this role and several months later he called me back and said, 'I want another shot at the porcupine,' " said Favreau.
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Shandling, who died on March 24 of an apparent heart attack, has a small role in the new star-studded Disney film – appearing as an amusing porcupine.
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We can follow the chase as fast as we are able to drive, but if we'd hit a porcupine borough along the way, we'd have been buggered.
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Forty years ago, his father was in the outback and late at night was befriended by a large lion with a porcupine quill entrenched in his paw.
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A mouse, a gorilla, a harried mother who happens to be a pig and a postpunk porcupine are just some of the performing animals of Moon's production.
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It is home to imperiled polar bears, the porcupine caribou herd, musk oxen, wolves and nearly 200 species of migratory birds that migrate to all 50 states.
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By setting up his Camtraptions camera traps near a watering hole, Burrard-Lucas managed to capture images of a porcupine and a zebra going in for a sip.
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We ended up becoming innovators in that, and I quote Steve Wilson from Porcupine Tree saying the last interesting thing in music, the last new thing, is metal.
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An odd-looking man with widely spaced teeth and a porcupine-ish pompadour, he made his journalistic bones during the First World War, in Paris, editing Stars & Stripes.
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So he decides to produce a monumental fund-raising singing contest and sees talent immediately in a punk-rock porcupine, a crooning mouse, a teenage elephant and more.
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I never saw him lose his temper, even with his dad, who was an incredibly loud, impatient, insulting porcupine of a man…though no workers took him seriously.
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This itty-bitty porcupine helped bring attention to the challenges of motherhood in the modern workplace, and somehow even made screaming seem adorable — well, up to a point.
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There, he realizes that it was Stargirl sending him porcupine ties on his birthday every year, a mystery that Leo had wondered about for years before ever meeting her.
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The Porcupine herd leaves the coastal plain in July shortly after calving season and heads east and south back to its fall and wintering areas — approximately 400 miles away.
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He calls these "proposals," since they include traditional materials like beads and bits of gourd or porcupine quills, but are updated with text printed in graphic lettering or photographs.
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A metal sculpture of a porcupine — part of a set of 10 animal statues by Wendy Klemperer — was stolen from the grounds of the Portland International Jetport in Portland, Maine.
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So to protect themselves and hide that fact through technology, they have this incredibly strong, terrifying armature they can use to emote, hence the sort of porcupine aspects of them.
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As proof, Leo has those porcupine ties: He was never able to find Stargirl, but every year on his birthday, he says, she still sent him one as a gift.
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Mr. Samp said a Four Directions worker drove the copies from Fort Yates to Porcupine — about 30 miles — because Ms. Hettich's office did not have anyone available to do it.
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Take a closer look at the gingerbread castle and small accessories, like a chocolate-peppermint reindeer cake and tiny porcupine brownies, which give the composition a new degree of artistry.
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This issue, she and her new protege The Porcupine (a one-time D-list Marvel villain now trying to make good) take their respective kids to the beach on Staten Island.
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The meet-and-greet at the Wild Life Sydney Zoo also included a visit with a prickly pet echidna, whose coarse hair and spines resemble those of a hedgehog or porcupine.
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The Bathurst Herd, from the Northwest Territories, and the Porcupine Herd, from Alaska and the Yukon Territory, are the elites of the elites — each has been tracked traveling about 840 miles.
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For decades, the Gwich'in have led the Native opposition to drilling, arguing that opening the 1002 Area could affect the porcupine caribou, a major source of food and a spiritual touchstone.
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We talked about H.I.V.; they were especially interested in how long it lingered on razor blades or porcupine quills, which were their syringes — they cut patients' scalps and rubbed herbs in.
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Previously owned by Yellowstone Club founders Tim and Edra Blixseth, the Porcupine Creek golf club includes a main house with a whopping 16 bedrooms, in addition to several separate guest houses.
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Democrats and environmentalists deplore the prospect of development in ANWR, home to polar and grizzly bears, 200 species of birds, and where Gwich'in natives depend on migrating herds of porcupine caribou.
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The Porcupine Warriors, a local indigenous collective, held a teach-in in January at the store to raise money for the Wet'suwet'en First Nation, whose members have fought the TransCanada pipeline expansion.
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He might have invented his own Shostakovich — his marvelous novel "The Porcupine" fictionalizes Todor Zhivkov, the fallen Communist ruler of Bulgaria, and lets us hear his inner voice as he faces trial.
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Polar bears make dens there, and it is where most of the huge Porcupine caribou herd — 22,2000 animals in all — come in spring and early summer to calve and forage for food.
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Native people who have coexisted with the 197,000-strong porcupine caribou herd, and relied on the animals as a resource, are concerned the plan will wreck traditions that go back thousands of years.
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There's no denying those tips, frosted as furiously as a beech tree after winter's first heavy snowfall; locks gelled so aggressively that they resemble the sharp quills on the backside of a porcupine.
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The refuge, which is home to different animal species from polar bears to Porcupine caribou, has been off limits to drilling for decades and long sought after by the oil and gas industry.
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Scientists have documented other sorts of projectile defenses in animals before, such as porcupine quills, skunk sprays, and spitting cobra venom, but the independent action of the sea urchin's pedicellaria heads is rather unique.
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She is a fan of acupuncture, and the mat, roughly the size of a flattened porcupine, is similarly covered with short spikes—almost ten thousand of them, clumped onto rows of one-inch disks.
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Recalling the dense, relentless quills of a porcupine, its hundreds of towers are enhanced, of course, by the shimmering foreground of Victoria Harbor and the majestic background of its soaring and plunging green mountains.
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" I would imagine there is only a handful of people in the entire world that, when asked about health care, would immediately think of porcupine sex, and then say, "these two things are the same.
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Most famously it is the birthing ground for the massive Porcupine caribou herd, migrating 400 miles each spring to raise newborn calves on the area's coastal plain, the very place Republicans just opened to drilling.
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But another group that lives south of the refuge, the Gwich'in, fears oil development would disturb the migration of porcupine caribou, animals it has hunted for centuries and still relies on for much of its food.
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Mr. Balash, who oversees the bureau, said each of the four proposed alternatives had "built-in protections" for the coastal plain, known as the 1002 Area, where the migrating porcupine caribou herd goes to give birth.
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Michael Holston, the internet sensation famously known as The Real Tarzann, is being sued over a prickly little critter ... a woman claims he's got her pet porcupine locked in a cage and won't fork it over!!!
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The Stalker refers to another guide from the past named Porcupine, whose conscious desires were trumped by unconscious ones: The Room gave him all that he did not know that he wished for, and destroyed his life.
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But the suit alleges that Oracle initiated its plan to buy NetSuite in January 2016 during a multiday Oracle board retreat at Ellison's private golf course Porcupine Creek estate attended by all 13 members of the board.
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Palin has long fought to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, which would destroy pristine wilderness and threaten the survival of rare muskox herds as well as the Porcupine caribou herd.
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The minister, Aleksei Ulyukayev, 60, a liberal stalwart with a trademark porcupine haircut, was detained in the middle of the night, a Soviet-like tactic against officials who had fallen into disfavor that many thought had been retired.
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The refuge's coastal plain, which has the largest concentration of land-based polar bear dens in the United States and is a calving ground for the Porcupine caribou herd, would be forever lost to an industrial oil field.
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Katrina Shangreaux, 30, of Porcupine, will admit to second-degree murder in the July 2016 slaying of her son, Kylen Shangreaux, in an agreement reached with federal prosecutors, says a spokeswoman for the U.S Attorney's Office in Rapid City.
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But it turns out the senator's knowledgable comments about porcupine sex aren't even entirely true, because the Associated Press actually fact checked it: THE FACTS: He is correct, it's tricky, but unlike lawmakers, porcupines have their mission figured out.
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Industrial oil development on the Arctic coastal plain outside the Refuge has negatively impacted the calving rate of herds in those areas, and scientists predict it will have a similar impact on the Porcupine Caribou herd within the Refuge.
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The film, which opened December 21, features a scene (a snippet of which you can see in the video below) in which Scarlett Johansson's character, Ash the porcupine, comes home to find her ego-maniac boyfriend, Lance, with another girl.
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When Bill Murray shows up as the bear Baloo, or Garry Shandling, in his final role as the shuffling, muttering porcupine Ikki, their voices are so evocative of familiar faces that they detract from the faces that are actually onscreen.
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"I like it here," she said in her living room, a clean, quiet space, which she had furnished with a burgundy couch, a Danish modern coffee table with a porcupine sculpture on top, and books lined up on the floor.
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The Urban Park Rangers, who are celebrating 40 years of public service, will serve as animal ambassadors at this free event, where they will show tortoises, a skunk, a porcupine and an opossum, as well as various birds of prey.
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Katrina – who, like Dubray, lives in Porcupine, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation – allegedly killed her son on July 28 with blows to the head and abdomen, according to the South Dakota U.S. Attorney's Office, reports the Rapid City Journal.
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In the storm's aftermath, a local, freelancing weather man, Peter Lovasco, who once contributed weather reports to The Gloucester Daily Times, tweeted a couple pictures of what appears to be some species of puffer fish or porcupine fish impaled on a Gloucester tree.
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"We had an intrusion of bears come to our campground and his reaction, he was just as mean and nasty as the bears," Mark recalled to WOOD-TV of a previous camping trip to the Porcupine Mountains in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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"When you're one-on-one with someone who doesn't agree with you, or whose ideology is different than yours, when you're face-to-face, your porcupine needles go down," said Silverman, who headlines "I Love You, America," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Witness the work of Jeffrey Gibson, whose show at the New Museum, "The Anthropophagic Effect," incorporates references to contemporary painting and pattern while also paying homage to the woven work Native Americans have made from materials like river cane and porcupine quills.
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It's then explained to him by the mischievous creature Ryuk (voiced by Willem Dafoe) -- who resembles a cross between "Guardians of the Galaxy's" Groot and a porcupine -- that any name Light writes in the book will die, provided he can think of their face.
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Styles range from the verbal Conceptualism of Lawrence Weiner's gnomic, block-lettered text, which reads, "An Abrogation of the Inherent Destiny of Any Object At Hand," to the funky surrealism of Monica Cook's "Cobra," a monstrous snake made of stuffed stockings and porcupine quills.
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People laced with cherries dance frantically while an owl covers their faces; a porcupine rides in a bubble; naked bodies lift some sort of gargantuan, severed crustacean tail; and in every corner of the painting an almost indescribable scene of pleasure and pain is in progress.
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According to legal docs obtained by TMZ ... Corinne Oltz, the operator of Wild Animal World in Florida, claims a prehensile-tailed porcupine named Pickles went missing from her operation last year and ended up in Holston's care ... and she says he's refusing to return her exotic pet.
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"Wonder Park" (March 15): "This is beginning to feel like a terrible turn of events for us all," says John Oliver, perhaps all too aptly voicing a porcupine in this confusingly frenetic trailer for a cartoon about a young girl whose imaginary amusement park comes to life.
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Dozens of Extensions will be available from developers including Altoar, Casperr, CygnusCross, Daniil Kubatko, Doborog Games, Evolution Gaming, gnatbuoy, Hellcat, Inthegame, Martin Beierling, End Game, Meastoso, Mobalytics, MoneyMatches, Porcupine, Pretzel Tech, Purity Dev, Run It Up, Seravy, Stream Decker, Streamlabs, tallcode, tetsuo286, vAudience, VoidTeam Studios and Zippers & Henry Liao.
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As pointed out to me by Trevor Branch, an associate professor at the University of Washington's School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, things reportedly found in tiger shark stomachs include: a common mole-rat, a South African porcupine, a blue duiker, humans, and a whole lot of our trash.
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The fisher, a particularly fearless weasel in the marten branch, may be the only North American carnivore to have mastered the art of dining on adult porcupine — a large rodent that, in addition to being protected by a formidable quill sheath, weighs a good 12 pounds more than the eight-pound fisher.
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Although there are variations, most years the 218,000 animals of the Porcupine herd of barren-ground caribou move in an unending circuit — from the south side of the Brooks Range; around the eastern and southern side of the mountains; then westward in late spring onto the Coastal Plain to drop their calves.
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Although there are variations, most years the 218,000 animals of the Porcupine herd of barren-ground caribou move in an unending circuit — from the south side of the Brooks Range; around the eastern and southern side of the mountains; then westward in late spring onto the Coastal Plain to drop their calves.
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Golden eagle Gray wolf Black bear Elk Canadian lynx Grizzly bear Mountain lion Osprey Mink Gray wolf Black bear Peregrine Gyrfalcon Hybrid Bobcat Gray wolf North American porcupine Yellowstone National Park is home to more than 500 species of birds and mammals, but you'll never catch more than a glimpse of most of them.
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The only rule in this ancient struggle is that Pet of the Day — a sort of D.M.Z. where Ms. Watts attempts to interest readers in such charmers as Spike, a porcupine from Edmonton, Alberta, who "has no idea what a threat is and therefore his quills are always laying flat on his back" — never wins.
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When the team of scientists installed their camera traps in an old-growth forest just north of the Tiputini River, they were treated to periodic visits from a host of other species including red howler monkeys (Alouatta seniculus), white-bellied spider monkeys (Ateles belzebuth), a two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus), and a bicolored porcupine (Coendou bicolor).
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The groups are seeking information about the effect on the Porcupine caribou herd, which roams between Alaska and Canada and uses the area targeted for oil development; the effect of 3-D seismic surveys desired by the Bureau of Land Management, and information about development work that Interior officials were doing during the federal government shutdown early this year.
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Read More: 'The Land Is an Equalizer': Indigenous Peoples Take Greater Role in Shaping Canada's National Parks "There's a need to protect places like the Peel Watershed," said Kris Statnyk, a citizen of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation and intergovernmental coordinator for the Vuntut Gwitchin Government located in Old Crow, Yukon, on the banks of the Porcupine River.
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The slightly feline feyness we all fell for in Withnail and I is still there, and bursts into life with his portrayal of Jack Hock, the heavy-drinking, coke-dealing, hard-fucking accomplice to Melissa McCarthy's "absolute porcupine curmudgeon" (his words), Lee Israel—the American author known for forging letters by deceased actors and literary figures.
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Some of the methods and skills Callanan uses he learned when he was a sign maker for various pubs in London and Edinburgh—many of his signs are still available to view including, in London, The Cambridge at Cambridge Circus, The Porcupine on Charing Cross Road, The Three Greyhounds at Old Compton Street, the Hoop and Grapes in Aldgate, and more.
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That means that, in addition to permanently harming the birthplace of the Porcupine Caribou Herd — which is vital to sustaining indigenous communities in both Alaska and Canada — the government's reckless plan for oil drilling on the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge is imperiling wolves, threatened polar bears, more than 200 bird species, and one of our bedrock environmental laws.
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