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Description: Kyathadevaragudi, Chamarajanagara located in Karnataka known as a Wildlife Sanctuary and Hill Station named after Kyathadevara Gudi temple. In this sanctuary, the Porcupine is largely found which is a rodent.

It is covered in multiple layers of modified hair called quills, with longer, thinner quills covering a layer of shorter, thicker ones. The quills are brown or black with alternating white and black bands. They are made of keratin and are relatively flexible. Each quill is connected to a muscle at its base, allowing the porcupine to raise its quills when it feels threatened.

The base of the tail contains shorter quills that appear white, with longer, hollow quills that the porcupine can rattle to produce a warning sound when threatened. The porcupine has a stocky build which has broad feet with long claws used for burrowing. Like all porcupines, has a good sense of smell and sharp, chisel-like incisors. Porcupines have a very broad and mostly herbivorous diet. They consume a variety of natural and agricultural plant material, including roots, bulbs, fruits, grains, drupes and tubers, along with insects and small vertebrates. Porcupine is protected under The Indian  Wildlife Protection Act. Porcupine is destructive to gardens and crops, it is widely hunted. It is traded for consumption and medicinal use.