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Перевод: porcupine

[существительное]
дикобраз ; ножевой барабан

Тезаурус:

1. i.e. sea porcupine, fish having its skin covered with spines, e.g. sun-fish.
2. Or the do-probe-me inaccessibility of a porcupine.
3. This species circles the porcupine like a mongoose dealing with a cobra, and confuses it enough to be able to strike at its only vulnerable zone - its head.
4. The North American porcupine's method of defending itself is to lash wildly at the enemy with its spiny tail, sometimes turning the predator's nose into a pin-cushion.
5. After a few blows there, the porcupine succumbs and is then turned carefully over and eaten from underneath, its soft underbelly causing no problems.
6. Below is a drawing of the African porcupine, a larger rodent that collects and extensively chews bone.
7. They can be rattled to produce a menacing warning sound, they can be thrust violently into the flesh of the attacker by backward lunges of the porcupine's body, and they can easily be detached to be left embedded in the unfortunate predator's anatomy.
8. The porcupine fish (opposite, top) inflates itself by gulping in water (or air if it has been removed from the sea) until its body is so puffed up that its spiny scales stand out rigidly from its body and defy any killer to devour it.
9. Wir porcupine's been in the
10. Since the main function of bone collecting by porcupines seems to keep their incisors in good condition rather than as food, it does not seem likely that small mammal bone could serve any useful purpose from the porcupine's point of view.
11. It is decorated with pierced holes - a feature common on Blackfoot Indian shirts and possibly invoking sacred protection against bullets - and with the uncommon technique of wrapping horsehair in porcupine quills.
12. Here the spikes can become enormous quills - those of the great crested porcupine are as long as 20 inches.
13. Fish, such as the ornate Porcupine Fish and Lion Fish and the colourful Domino Damsels, Koran Angels, Tomato Clownfish, Red-tailed Blenny and Striped Sweetlips - colourful names to describe colourful creatures from fragile marine habitats gravely threatened by pollution in many parts of the world.