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Porcupine Who Lost Baby Adopts Orphaned Porcupette and Everyone's Hearts Are Melting. Diana Logan. Updated December 9, 2024 at 3:29 PM. ... Prickle the porcupine had a rough start in life. On top ...
The North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum), also known as the Canadian porcupine, is a large quill-covered rodent in the New World porcupine family. It is the second largest rodent in North America after the North American beaver ( Castor canadensis ).
A baby porcupine was recently born at the zoo, and they're just as cute and little as you'd imagine. As soon as you see the newborn porcupine in @abcnews' March 6 video, you'll be in love, too.
This porcupine can grow to forty inches long (1 m), but half of that is tail. It weighs about nine pounds (4.1 kg). No spines are found on the tail, which is long (330–485 mm (13.0–19.1 in)). Its feet are reflective of their arboreal lifestyle, well-adapted for gripping branches, with four long-clawed toes on each.
The New World porcupines, family Erethizontidae, are large arboreal rodents, distinguished by their spiny coverings from which they take their name. They inhabit forests and wooded regions across North America, and into northern South America.
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, independent animal in only six short months.
But my favorite porcupine fact has to do with the babies. Baby porcupines are called porcupettes...how adorable is that?! Porcupettes are born with soft, bendable quills, and within just a few ...
By contrast, the head is hairless, revealing the yellowish spines. The snout is pink, broad and bulbous, and the eyes are small. The tail is prehensile, spiny and broad at the base, tapering to a point. This porcupine differs from Rothschild's porcupine (Coendou rothschildi) in that Rothschild's is more obviously spiny and lacks the hairy coat. [5]