Did you know that baby porcupines are called porcupettes? The tiny animals are born with soft quills that harden within hours, and have a steep learning curve to go from baby to full-grown, ...

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Something occurred to me recently that I’d never thought of before: porcupine birth. Yeah. Ouch, right? Covered head to tail in sharp quills—that’s gotta pose a serious problem in the delivery room.

The baby porcupine — also known as a porcupette — will be bottled-fed at the Brookfield Zoo until they are old enough for a solid food diet Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...

The new addition is the third offspring born to parents Prickles and Shadow, two prehensile-tailed porcupines at the Stone Zoo in Massachusetts A New England zoo recently welcomed a new — and spiky — ...

BROOKFIELD, Ill. (CBS) --The Brookfield Zoo is welcoming a new member to the family, a baby porcupine. Also known as a porcupette, the little one was born on March 19 at the zoo, and is being ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — New residents moved into the Austin Nature and Science Center, and the community will get to meet them firsthand on Sunday. Those new residents are baby porcupines. The center decided ...

Spanish zookeepers have stepped in to hand-rear two baby porcupines after their mother abandoned them. The two little South African porcupines, also known as Cape porcupines, were born at Valencia ...

The zoo is welcoming three new additions. In the nocturnal exhibit are baby prehensile South American porcupines. They're twins. "Calvera" is named after a super hero from the magnificent seven, and ...

Porcupettes are born with soft, flexible quills that harden within hours, protecting both mother and baby. Baby porcupines are precocial, able to walk almost immediately and begin climbing within days ...

Staff at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center give the rescued baby porcupine a check-up. It weighed in at less than a pound and was in good health. When it comes to staying informed in Minnesota, our ...