Folkmanis Standing Porcupine Hand Puppet
Folkmanis standing porcupine hand puppet, sitting upright in a front view with long shaggy grey-brown fur and a dark face.
Folkmanis standing porcupine hand puppet shown side-on, its front paws held close together.
Folkmanis standing porcupine hand puppet seen from behind, its shaggy fur almost covering the whole body.
Folkmanis standing porcupine hand puppet sitting on a branch among berries, its front paws held up to the mouth.
Folkmanis standing porcupine hand puppet close to a young woman's face, its mouth slightly open.
Folkmanis standing porcupine hand puppet on a young woman's arm, its mouth open with the tongue visible.
Folkmanis standing porcupine hand puppet on a girl's arm, the claws on its front paws clearly visible.
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Capture the magic of woodland life with the Folkmanis Standing Porcupine hand puppet. With soft textured quills, an earthy character, a movable mouth and forepaws, this companion brings the natural world into every playtime.
The North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) is the continent's second-largest rodent after the beaver. With its tail it reaches almost a metre, usually weighs four to nine kilograms and in exceptional cases as much as eighteen. It ranges from Alaska and Canada to the mountain forests of northern Mexico, and in the east south into the Appalachians, getting by in tundra and scrubland as well as forest. It sleeps away the day high up in a fork of branches; only in winter does it retreat into hollow trees and rock crevices. In winter it eats bark, in summer leaves, shoots and berries; its craving for salt draws it to axe handles, paddles and anything that tastes of sweat. Its incisors are orange and exceptionally hard – the hardness comes from an iron-rich layer of enamel, the colour from a thin film on the tooth's surface. In spring the female gives birth to a single young whose quills are still soft at birth and harden within hours.
Did you know that North American porcupines are good swimmers? Their quills are not solid spines but thin tubes of keratin around a core of tiny air cells – which makes them feather-light and remarkably hard to buckle. Porcupines do fall while climbing – healed fractures in museum skeletons prove that – and in doing so they spike themselves on their own quills. A film of fatty acids on the quills inhibits bacteria, and researchers suspect that this is what keeps those self-inflicted wounds from turning serious.
| Typ: | hand puppet |
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| Playability: | mouth, forlegs, head |
| Height approx.: | 28 cm |
| Weight approx.: | 199 g |
| Publication year: | July 2026 |
| Care Instructions: | Care and Cleaning Guide |