On May 31, the management center of Chongqing Yintiaoling National Nature Reserve released a message saying that when they sorted out the recovered infrared camera video, they found that many wild porcupines were photographed out to feed.
As can be seen from the video, these infrared cameras are all porcupines foraging at night, and in one of the videos, two larger porcupines, with a small porcupine, like a family of three, they sometimes look down and sniff, as if looking for food, sometimes looking around, vigilantly looking at the surrounding environment, and then quickly disappearing into the camera.
Wild porcupine is a national third-level protected wild animal, because from the back to the tail, it is covered with spines like a cluster of arrows, so it is also called "arrow pig".
The porcupine is tan all over, the ears are bare, it has a small amount of short white hairs, and a white longitudinal stripe from the forehead to the center of the neck. Porcupine is a nocturnal animal, sleeping in a cave during the day, coming out at night to forage, slow movement, poor response, mainly living in the lush mountain hills, accustomed to digging burrows under embankments and rocks.
Although the appearance of the porcupine is cute, it is not a "good stubble", the spine on the back of the porcupine is a deadly "weapon", once the thorn is pierced into the face or skin, it is difficult to pull it out, which will cause wound infection, bring great pain to the injured, and even lead to death.
Chongqing Yintiaoling National Nature Reserve is located in Wuxi, in order to better monitor the wildlife in the reserve, the management center has set up more than 400 infrared lenses in the reserve, and has previously photographed black bears, Chinese iguanas, red-bellied horned pheasants and other national wild protected animals.
Upstream journalist Fan Shengqing correspondent Fu Chunrong Gong Decai