The bicolor-spined porcupine has quills that are pale at the base and dark toward the tip, and is an able climber. It is mainly active at night in trees and eats leaves, fruit, and other plant parts.
Its quills are white or yellowish near the base and black or dark brown toward the tip. The body is blackish or dark brown, sometimes with yellow or white mixed in.
It is mainly nocturnal, solitary, and arboreal, gripping branches with its tail and all four limbs. It rests in dense foliage or tree hollows and eats leaves, tender stems, fruit, buds, and roots.
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