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North American Porcupine (Erethizon Dorsatum) has an estimated weight of ≈18.1 kilograms. It ranks #425 of 598 in the Animals category.
Source excerpt: The North American Porcupine looks dramatically different from all of the other porcupines. While the African and Indian porcupines have more soft flesh exposed, the North American porcupine has more quills all over, though the quills are much shorter.
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Weighing about the same as the Indian Porcupine at 40 pounds.
| Kilograms | 18.1 kilograms |
| Pounds | 40 pounds |
| Metric tonnes | 0.018 tonnes |
| Grams | 18,144 grams |
| Ounces | 640 ounces |
| Stones | 2.86 stones |
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North American Porcupine (Erethizon Dorsatum) typically weighs about ≈18.1 kilograms, within a recorded range of 18.1 kilograms.
It ranks #425 of 598 entries in Animals, heavier than 25% of items in the dataset.
The data comes from 1 source articles on weightofstuff.com, most recently updated on 2024-05-16.
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