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may share burrows and home ranges. They feed on a wide variety of
plants, digging for bulbs, roots and corms, and eat tree bark. Litters
consist of 1–2 well-developed young.
Distribution and Status The North African Porcupine occurs across
the Sahel and northwards through western Mauritania, Morocco
(including Western Sahara), northern Algeria and the Libyan coastal
plain. It used to occur in Egypt, but is believed to be extinct there. The
Asian Porcupine lives around the edges of the Arabian Peninsula, but