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oads. They will often travel up to nine miles per night in search of food. They
primarily eat roots, bark, and fallen fruit, but have a fondness, too, for cultivated
root crops such as cassava, potatoes, and carrots. Although they are vegetarians,
porcupine burrows are often littered with bones. They gnaw on the bones to sharpen
their incisor teeth and to obtain calcium.
At birth, crested porcupines weigh only three percent of their mother’s weight.
When born, the young porcupine’s quills are white and soft, although they start to
become hard within hours. Their eyes are open and incisors are already crowning
shortly after birth. After only one week, their spines begin to harden and, although
small, they leave the nest.
When threatened, the crested porcupine raises and fans its quills to create the illusion
of greater size. The crested porcupine will then stamp its feet, click its teeth, and
growl or hiss while vibrating specialized quills that produce a characteristic rattle.
The “rattle quills” on the end of the tail are hollow and open at the end, thus
producing the most noise. If an enemy persists, the porcupine runs backward until it
rams its attacker. Such attacks have been known to kill lions, leopards, hyenas, and
humans—and these predators have often been found with porcupine quills lodged in
their throats. New quills grow in to replace lost ones.
Porcupine quills have long been a favorite ornament and good luck charm in Africa.
The hollow rattle quills serve as musical instruments and were once used as
containers for gold dust.
Darren Kelly was the production editor, and Leanne Soylemez was the copyeditor for
Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++. Derek Di Matteo, Reg Aubry, Claire
Cloutier, and Jane Ellin provided quality control. John Bickelhaupt wrote the index.
Jamie Peppard, Reg Aubry, Judy Hoer, and Mary Agner provided production
support.
Emma Colby designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie
Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial
Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using
Adobe’s ITC Garamond font.
David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Joe Wizda to
FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh,
Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra, which uses Perl and XMLtechnologies. The text
font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code
font is LucasFont’s TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the
book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia Free-
Hand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. The tip and warning icons were drawn by
Christopher Bing. This colophon was written by Darren Kelly.