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.

Hosts Kaitlen Daigle and Lauren Phinney sit down with Jackie Navarro, executive director of Wild Wonders, to talk about porcupines. Fun fact about porcupines is that they are covered in up to 30,000 ...