How many kinds of national protected animals are porcupines?

Porcupine is a national third-class protected animal.

Third-class protected animals:

1, animals: leopard cat, South China rabbit, raccoon fox, red-bellied squirrel, porcupine, porcupine (hedgehog), ferret, badger, Yellow weasel, green ferret, Chinese bamboo rat and silver star bamboo rat.

2. Birds: bamboo chicken, red-billed lovebird, ring-necked pheasant, small frog, mountain spotted chicken, quail and needle-tailed duck.

3. Reptiles: toads and frogs.

Extended data:

Porcupine is also called porcupine, which means a pig with needles all over it. In fact, it is not like a "pig" at all, because it is covered with thorns from the back to the tail like a bunch of arrows that pigs don't have.

In particular, the longer the thorns on the buttocks, the more thick they are like chopsticks, and the old man is nearly half a meter. The color of each thorn is black and white, which stands out. In addition to thorns, porcupines have a fat body, sharp teeth and a mouse-like face, so they belong to rodents.

Members of the porcupine family are famous for their straight and backward curved spines. The back, buttocks and tail are covered with thick black thorns that alternately rotate and hammer. Their hair evolved into protective spines, which appeared in many mammals, even in the suborder porcupine of rodents, but the spines of porcupine family were the most developed.

The thorns of porcupines fall off easily, and some species can shoot out. The spines on the back of porcupines are more developed than those in the front, and the typical posture to resist enemy injuries is to turn your back on each other.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-national protected animals