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Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2011-04-28): What many people don’t realize is that porcupines readily migrate to greener pastures in spring. An acquaintance lost several beds of early lettuce, peppers, and flats of impatiens. Summer was uneventful. But then in fall, she lost all her cucumbers, zucchinis, butternut squashes, and eggplants. She remained mystified until her backyard surveillance camera revealed a porcupine raiding her unfenced raised beds. In May, porcupines seek the tender leaves of sweet maples and juicy sapwood beneath the bark of birch and poplar twigs. As more tender greens become available, porcupines migrate to fields, pastures, and even ornamental trees. I’ve found several juvenile "porcupette" grazing on dandelions and clover at dusk in our open pasture. [...] Porcupines are accessible to us. Compared to other wildlife, they are relatively abundant, conspicuous, slow-moving, and prone to habituate areas inhabited by people and pets. They’re almost "cute" with an endearing, comical quality about their manner. It’s easy to be ambivalent about them: You love them for their endearing traits while hating them for their damage to gardens, trees, structures, and pets.
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2021-04-16): Yeah, well, we'll see how that works this year. And another animal that can climb our porcupines. They're quite adept at climbing, but I don't really think a porcupine so much as a pest of vegetables as much as fruit. So we often recommend people fence off their fruit plantings mostly for deer. But is there anything you can do with that deer fencing to also keep porcupines from climbing over [...] I guess maybe the good news with porcupines is that they're often not issues and more seldom issues they're not maybe coming to your furniture is day after day after day. It's kind of a the occasional hit. Although when they do hit, it's often pretty devastating. [...] Yeah. And I know sometimes for small home orchard plantings, people may actually protect individual trees, which I think probably could help with porcupines quite a bit.
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2020-12-08): Porcupines are mobile and continually reinvade control areas. Complete control is not desirable since it would require complete removal of porcupines. Try to limit lethal porcupine control to individual animals causing damage by fencing and management of the plant species. In areas of high porcupine populations, plant ornamentals that are not preferred foods. Intensive predator control may encourage porcupine population increases. Thinned forest stands are vulnerable to porcupine damage because lower vegetation can thrive. Porcupine populations are usually lower in closed canopy stands where understory vegetation is scant. Fencing small tree plantings, orchards, and gardens is effective in reducing porcupine damage. Electric fences are effective when the smooth electric wire is placed 1 1/2 inches (3.8 cm) above 18-inch-high (46-cm) poultry wire. A 4- to 6-inch (10- to 15-cm) electric fence can be enhanced by painting molasses on the wire. Porcupines will climb fences, but an overhanging wire strip around the top of the fence at a 65o angle to the upright wire will discourage them.
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2022-06-18): "During the day, it’s the monkeys that raid the field, at night it’s the turn of the porcupines," Paudel says. "Villagers guard their crops during the day to drive away monkeys. But when it’s dark, the porcupines come and eat the crops and we can’t do anything about it." [...] Sabina Koirala, who recently completed her Ph.D. in human-monkey conflict, says she believes Nepal’s reforestation policies may, in fact, have contributed to the problem of monkeys and porcupines raiding crops today. [...] As most of the studies are based on anecdotes, it’s also difficult to ascertain which species of monkeys or porcupines are involved in raiding crops. There are three monkey species native to this region of Nepal — the Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta), Assam macaque (Macaca assamensis) and Nepal gray langur (Semnopithecus schistaceus) — and two species of porcupines: the Malayan porcupine (Hystrix brachyura) and the Indian crested porcupine (Hystrix indica). Macaques are at the center of most of the reports of crop raiding.
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2022-01-01): After turning the outdoor lights on, I would run out to chase it away, but five minutes later it would return to resume eating my flowers. It was futile—like chasing back a relentless incoming tide. Because of the garden layout, fencing it to keep out porcupines from the nearby coniferous forest and rocky shore wasn’t feasible. Spraying the plants with animal repellent didn’t work either. And because the porcupine is so omnivorous, narrowing the selection of flowers in the beds was not an option for keeping its damage under control. [...] Porcupines love to nibble on tender new shoots. When his saplings fell victim to these animals, who ravaged the trees with their chomping, Larry was outraged. He’d imagined biting into a crisp, honeyed apple grown on his own soil, but each invasion of porcupines made that vision a bitter unmet dream. [...] But porcupines have overpopulated our Schoodic peninsula. Due to a lack of their natural predator, a weasel-like animal called a fisher, porcupines feel free to roam wherever they choose. Not fearful of their human neighbors, they eat whatever people provide in gardens that border the pine, spruce, and fir forests where the animals live.
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2024-10-08): The porcupine’s feeding and gnawing habits can leave negative impressions. Winter feeding on the inner bark of trees can result in timber losses, usually confined to specific areas such as stands adjacent to large denning populations or where porcupines invade young even-age conifers. Winter denning concentrations often occur in rocky and steep terrain where site conditions and access for logging are poor; therefore, trees killed in such areas are relatively unimportant to timber production. Porcupines occasionally cause damage in sugar maple stands, apple orchards, and cultivated crops. If a porcupine chews off an isolated section on a tree’s trunk, the bark will, in time, close over the wound. If a porcupine girdles the trunk, however, the tree will die. Trees with upper branches freshly "barked" (the newly exposed wood shows light against the bark) show that a porcupine is in the area. Beech trees are often damaged only at their bases, perhaps because individuals have a hard time climbing this smooth-barked species. Although porcupines kill a few trees by girdling, most authorities agree the damage they cause over large areas is generally insignificant.
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2024-06-20): Deer, rabbits, squirrels, woodchucks and birds, especially crows, can cause troublesome damage in the vegetable garden. In some areas, chipmunks, porcupines and voles develop a taste for vegetables. Raccoons notoriously appear just as the corn is ripening. [...] Though porcupines are more likely to injure fruit trees and berries, they sometimes develop a taste for certain succulent vegetables. Their droppings measure about ½" – 1 1/8" long and are sometimes slightly "C" shaped and strung together. These rodents have a strong attraction to salt from sweat left on tool handles and gloves. Fencing as for woodchucks is usually effective. Porcupines climb, but they don’t burrow.
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2017-01-01): - Porcupine quills have antibiotic properties, as porcupines sometimes "quill" themselves. - Porcupines do not throw their quills. [...] Porcupines can be injurious to commercial forests and reforestation projects by feeding on the terminal buds or eating the bark all the way around the trees. When such problems occur, site specific control may be necessary, although within most of Alaska porcupines are not numerous enough to do much damage.
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2023-12-11): Porcupines can be a Garden Nuisance. Speaking of porcupines, they are primarily nocturnal and don’t hibernate. And it’s winter when they can wreak havoc on trees by eating the bark and evergreen needles, which is why they are often found in wooded areas. But they can damage your garden, feasting on root vegetables, berries, fruit, and nuts. If they become a problem, you can capture them in an animal trap and move them along or install an electric fence. There are products such as Critter Ridder. Or use hot sauce or capsaicin, a chili pepper extract, on plants and trees to prevent porcupine damage and deter them from your garden (just be sure to rinse your vegetables thoroughly before you eat them.)
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2022-07-12): In the summer porcupines eat leaves, flowers, berries and grains. In the winter, they eat primarily evergreen needles and the inner bark of trees. [...] If you’re in porcupine habitat keep dogs on leashes. "We are helping our dogs by keeping them on leads. The North American porcupine has very few predators, and a dog doesn’t hold a chance of harming one," Griswold said. [...] Griswold admits she can go on and on about porcupines. She has been educating the public about them for decades. She wants children and adults to appreciate them and realize that they are mostly shy, nonaggressive and harmless.
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Michigan is home to nine bat species. All of Michigan’s bats primarily eat insects. These insectivores provide important benefits to farmers and landowners by consuming harmful insects that damage crops. All bat species in Michigan are protected and may not be harmed. If you find a dead bat outdoors, contact your local DNR office to have it submitted for disease testing. [...] Groundhogs, also known as woodchucks, are large squirrels that are strict herbivores. They eat grasses, plants, fruits, vegetables, seeds, and other plant matter. Groundhogs hibernate in their dens during the winter months. Groundhogs dig large holes and long underground tunnels that can cause structural damage, crop/ garden damage, or damage to farm equipment or livestock.
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2019-11-13): In agricultural and residential areas, porcupines cause a variety of unwanted damage. Fruit and ornamental trees, sweet corn, alfalfa, and small grains are often consumed. They have also been known to chew on wooden tool handles and canoe paddles in search of salt and buildings in search of plywood resins. They also pose a significant threat to domestic dogs, which never seem to learn to leave them alone. The best strategy to prevent damage from porcupines is exclusion. Fences, climbing barriers, and cages around plants are commonly used. For gardens, 18 inch tall poultry wire with a smooth electric wire 1.5 inches above the top is effective. Also, a simple smooth electric wire 4-6 inches above ground can provide adequate protection. This also prevents beaver damage. Of course, porcupines are not the only pests to exclude from your garden. Javelina, wood rats, deer, elk, etc. must also be considered. [...] Porcupine Ecology and Damage Management Techniques for Rural Homeowners , Utah State University Extension www.wyomingextension.org/agpubs/pubs/B1073.pdf
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2024-01-01): A porcupine quill piercing through skin is a cause for concern. Due to overlapping scales and a barb, penetrating quills are difficult to remove. Quills can travel through a pet’s body causing great harm to internal organs. If your pet has embedded quills (usually the face and muzzle), try to keep your pet from pawing at them and contact a veterinarian immediately. Do not cut the end off of quills as this will make it easier for the quill to migrate into the body. Take care to ensure all quills are removed. A porcupine can cause damage to orchards, tree plantings, wood lots, and gardens. Valuable trees can be damaged and eventually killed by porcupine removal of bark around the trunk, making the tree more susceptible to disease, insects, and birds. A porcupine’s need for salt can lead to undesirable interactions with people. Porcupines will chew on plywood structures, wooden tools, leather boots, and undercarriages of vehicles to satisfy this important biological need. To avoid or reduce damage and make your property less attractive to porcupines, consider the following options.
Claim: Porcupines Don`t Harm Agricultural Crops ! (Social Media Users, 2024-01-17)
Evidence (2018-07-05): The ability of porcupines to survive in areas proximate to farmlands and suburbia is a double-edged sword for them, because their initial success results in their ongoing persecution by humans. Porcupines come into conflict with us humans when they eat or damage crops and garden plants, damage fences and/or burrow under fences, chew on irrigation pipes or strip bark off trees. Additionally, their burrows can be obstacles to farm vehicles, and their abandoned burrows may harbour other animals that are also regarded as ‘problem animals’. [...] Porcupines are often regarded as wasteful feeders and their digging and burrowing is considered to be nothing short of damage. But ecologically speaking, in natural habitats porcupines can be seen as beneficial ecosystem engineers. Their diggings can accumulate water and organic material, including seed, and so have a positive effect on biodiversity, and their foraging habits can contribute to the regeneration of plants that propagate through corms and bulbs.
Claim: Elon Musk Attended Mukesh Ambani`s Son’s Wedding ! (Social Media Users, 2024-03-10)
Evidence (2024-03-10): In conclusion, there is no factual basis to the claim that Elon Musk attended Mukesh Ambani's son's wedding in Jamnagar, India, wearing traditional Indian attire. The viral image circulating on social media is likely fabricated or AI-generated. It's essential to rely on credible sources and verified information to avoid spreading misinformation.
Claim: Elon Musk Attended Mukesh Ambani`s Son’s Wedding ! (Social Media Users, 2024-03-10)
Evidence (2024-02-27): Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Bob Iger will join Indian business and political leaders and cricket stars as well as Bollywood celebrities for a pre-wedding event to celebrate the <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/lifestyle/fashion/2023/01/18/inside-anant-ambani-and-radhika-merchants-big-fat-indian-wedding/" target="_blank">marriage of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant</a>. Ambani, 28, is the youngest son of<a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/money/2023/01/09/billionaires-mukesh-ambani-switches-gears-to-focus-on-reliances-75bn-green-energy-plans/" target="_blank"> Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani</a>, one of the world's richest men, while Merchant, 29, is the daughter of industrialist Viren Merchant. The lavish three-day celebration, to be held from Friday to Saturday, in <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/travel/2024/02/26/jamnagar-gujarat-ambani-wedding/" target="_blank">Jamnagar</a>, Gujarat, on India's west coast, is also set to feature performances by pop star Rihanna, Punjabi singer Diljit Dosanjh, Bollywood music duo Ajay-Atul and American illusionist David Blaine, according to an official Reliance Industries guest list seen by <i>The National</i>. The event is a precursor to the main wedding on July 12 in Mumbai. Besides Meta's Zuckerberg and Disney's Iger, other top business leaders attending the Jamnagar celebration include Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Alphabet; Larry Fink, chairman and chief executive of BlackRock; Shantanu Narayen, chief executive of Adobe; and Jay Lee, executive chairman of Samsung Electronics.
Claim: Elon Musk Attended Mukesh Ambani`s Son’s Wedding ! (Social Media Users, 2024-03-10)
Evidence (2024-07-12): July 12 marks the highly-anticipated wedding day of Anant Ambani, son of Indian billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani, and Radhika Merchant—and various celebrities will be in attendance. [...] Approximately 1,200 guests are expected to attend the wedding ceremony, including prominent members of Silicon Valley business circles, Bollywood celebrities, and even former world leaders, such as Boris Johnson and Tony Blair. [...] The first pre-wedding event, which reportedly cost $150 million, was held in March in Mukesh Ambani's hometown of Jamnagar. Among the 1,200 guests attending the celebration were Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Ivanka Trump, and a who's who of Bollywood. There was also a performance by Rihanna, who reportedly was paid approximately $6.3 million.
Claim: Elon Musk Attended Mukesh Ambani`s Son’s Wedding ! (Social Media Users, 2024-03-10)
Evidence (2024-03-02): India's richest man brings Rihanna, Mark Zuckerberg and 1,200 guests to a pre-wedding celebration for his son [...] Billionaire Mukesh Ambani is kickstarting big fat Indian wedding celebrations for his son, Anant Ambani, 28, who is set to marry his longtime girlfriend Radhika Merchant. [...] Indian billionaires Gautam Adani and Kumar Mangalam Birla are also expected to attend, along with retired cricketer Sachin Tendulkar.
Claim: Elon Musk Attended Mukesh Ambani`s Son’s Wedding ! (Social Media Users, 2024-03-10)
Evidence (2024-03-01): Charter jets for tycoons and celebrities, a performance by Rihanna and directions to don "jungle fever" outfits when visiting an animal rescue center — that’s how billionaire Mukesh Ambani is kickstarting big fat Indian wedding celebrations for his son. [...] Anant’s pre-wedding bash is likely to be attended by Bill Gates, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, fellow Indian billionaires Gautam Adani and Kumar Mangalam Birla, as well as many cricketers and Bollywood film stars such as Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the plans who declined to be identified. [...] Ambani also made headlines with his daughter Isha’s wedding in 2018 which was described by some as a mini-Davos summit. Former U.S. Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry were among those who hit the dance floor with Bollywood stars back then.
Claim: Elon Musk Attended Mukesh Ambani`s Son’s Wedding ! (Social Media Users, 2024-03-10)
Evidence (2024-03-01): As big fat Indian weddings go, Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani knows how to take it to the next level. This weekend, the billionaire tycoon is hosting pre-wedding festivities for his son, 28-year-old Anant Ambani, in what promises to be a lavish affair with no expense spared. The younger Ambani is set to marry his childhood sweetheart Radhika Merchant, the 29-year-old daughter of another Indian billionaire, Viren Merchant. [...] Anant Ambani is currently a director at Reliance's new energy business and the Reliance Foundation. Last January, he was engaged to Merchant, who also serves on the board of her father’s pharmaceutical firm Encore, in a traditional ceremony at the grand Ambani residence of Antilia in Mumbai. The Ambanis’ 27-storey high home has previously drawn global attention for being the most expensive property in the world at the time it was built. India’s luxury wedding market sees Indians spending over $75 billion on weddings every year, attracting celebrities, fashion designers, and entertainment influencers. But few are akin to the affairs thrown by the Ambanis, who in 2018 made headlines for the most expensive Indian wedding at a reported cost of almost $100 million. The extravaganza, thrown for Ambani’s daughter Isha, was spread across Lake Como, Mumbai, and Udaipur. Superstar Beyoncé performed at the sangeet (a musical evening that typically precedes the wedding), while former U.S. Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry were in attendance.
Claim: Elon Musk Attended Mukesh Ambani`s Son’s Wedding ! (Social Media Users, 2024-03-10)
Evidence (2024-07-13): Lavish wedding celebrations for the son of Asia's richest man resumed on Saturday with a star-studded guestlist including Hollywood celebrities, global business leaders and two former British prime ministers. Billionaire tycoon Mukesh Ambani's youngest son Anant and fiancee Radhika Merchant, both 29, are tying the knot this weekend in Mumbai, India, following months of pre-marriage parties. [...] Wedding events earlier this year included a party at the Ambanis' ancestral home, where a purpose-built Hindu temple was unveiled alongside private performances by singers Rihanna and Justin Bieber.
Claim: Elon Musk Attended Mukesh Ambani`s Son’s Wedding ! (Social Media Users, 2024-03-10)
Evidence (2024-07-20): Mukesh Ambani reveals the most important celebration in son Anant’s 4-month wedding festivities [...] Anant Ambani, the younger son of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, married Radhika Merchant in a lavish ceremony in Mumbai on July 12. The wedding marked the culmination of a long engagement and four months of pre-wedding festivities, which included a luxury cruise across the Mediterranean and a three-day bash in Jamnagar, where the Ambani family owns a sprawling estate. [...] In a video going viral online, the billionaire can be seen addressing the massive crowd that gathered at Jio World Centre on July 15 to celebrate Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s wedding. The crowd consisted of Reliance employees and household staff along with their families.
Claim: Elon Musk Attended Mukesh Ambani`s Son’s Wedding ! (Social Media Users, 2024-03-10)
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Claim: Elon Musk Attended Mukesh Ambani`s Son’s Wedding ! (Social Media Users, 2024-03-10)
Evidence (2024-07-14): The son of Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani gets married in the year's most extravagant wedding Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani's youngest son married his girlfriend in an extravagant wedding attended by celebrities, business tycoons and politicians. [...] The youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, Asia's richest man, has married his longtime girlfriend in what many dubbed the wedding of the year, attended by global celebrities, business tycoons and politicians, highlighting the billionaire's staggering wealth and rising clout.
Claim: Elon Musk Attended Mukesh Ambani`s Son’s Wedding ! (Social Media Users, 2024-03-10)
Evidence (2024-07-12): See photos of stars at the mega wedding for the son of Asia's richest man in Mumbai, India The son of Asia's richest man is getting married in the culmination of a monthslong, star-studded, multi-event mega wedding this weekend, with the main event kicking off Friday. Anant Ambani, the son of Resilience Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, and longtime girlfriend Radhika Merchant have an epic guest list that includes John Cena, Kim Kardashian, Mark Zuckerberg, Bollywood stars, famous cricket players, politicians and a who's who from around the globe. [...] Anant is the couple's youngest son. Their daughter, Isha, got married in 2018 in a $83.8 million wedding, according to GQ India. Her wedding to Anand Piramal, the son of another billionaire, included a performance by Beyonce and is believed to have been the most expensive wedding in India.