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Lifespan
20-27 years
Diet
Their diet consists of roots, tubers, bark, and fallen fruits.
Habitat
Live at ground and under the roots of tree.
Range
The Malayan porcupine ranges from Nepal through north-east India to Bangladesh, central and southern China, throughout Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, through Peninsular Malaysia, to Singapore, Sumatra (Indonesia)
The Malayan porcupine is a shy and elusive rodent which is nocturnal. They live mostly on the ground, making their dens under tree ropts, rock crevices or burrows that they dig or abandoned by other animals.