Porcupine Traits

Porcupines are SOLITARY creatures.
They live ALONE. They are not like other rodents like mice or squirrels who live together in colonies.

Their spiny quills dislodge into anything they touch and can cause agony, infection, and even death.

With these qualities we would think they would be extinict long ago. But actually they flourish very well.

How?

Simply put, porcupines DANCE.

They flatten their pain inducing quills and two-step.

That's right, dance! It's a delicate balancing act to make things work out, when you have the ability to hurt others.

On cold nights they have even been known to snuggle down together in what is termed as "a prickle".

If these barbed creatures can overcome their prickly tendencies, we humans can learn to get along.

We can be agreeable even when we disagree.

We are porcupines too, but we can all learn to flatten our quills and dance.