Notable animals include spotted deer, hares, peacocks, porcupines and wild boar. Predators of eggs and nestlings include raccoons, crows, porcupines, and American black bears. Common mammals in Northern Michigan include white-tailed deer, fox, raccoons, porcupines, and rabbits. These included monkeys, chimpanzees, porcupines, squirrels, deers, etc. McCandless hunted porcupines, squirrels, and birds, such as ptarmigans and Canada geese. Players may be attacked by hostile animals such as porcupines and skunks. Fruits are eaten by baboons, rodents, porcupines, antelopes, who also disperse the seeds. Some individual leopards have shown a strong preference for pangolins and porcupines. Other pests include nematodes, spider mites, aphids, mole rats, porcupines and wild pigs. Births take place in dense vegetation or deserted burrows of aardvarks and porcupines. In Turkmenistan, the species is recorded to feed on wild boar, kulan, porcupines and tortoises. Archaeologists have the bones of bison, elk, deer, bear, raccoon, and porcupines at Iroquois villages. Porcupines and beavers feed on the inner bark. Deer browse the foliage of this species and porcupines chew the bark. Unusual prey items include porcupines and small reptiles.