"It was totally up to Hettie where she gave birth, and she decided to leave her cozy indoor dens and share the wonders of porcupine childbirth with our excited visitors," a London zookeeper said ...

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 ...

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 ...

A New England zoo recently welcomed a new — and spiky — addition to their animal family. On June 25, a prehensile-tailed porcupette (baby porcupine) was born at the Stone Zoo in Massachusetts to its ...

*This adorable baby porcupine was born at a Swiss zoo where he has been exploring his surroundings with caring family members. Wakili, the cute porcupine, was born at Zoo Zurich in the Swiss city of ...

MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee County Zoo on Wednesday announced that a prehensile-tailed porcupine was born March 27 in the Small Mammals building. The baby, whose gender is not yet known, is the second ...

The newborn porcupine explores his surroundings after being delivered via C-section at San Diego Zoo. Ken Bohn San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance In a first for the species, a porcupine mom gave birth ...

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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A baby animal throwing a tantrum and falling off a deck is always going to be adorable, but when the baby animal is a porcupine, things can get a little prickly. In this wholesome clip from the ...

An adorable baby porcupine was born at a Swiss zoo where he has been exploring his surroundings with caring family members. Wakili was born at Zoo Zurich lives in the Kopje Rocks section of the park's ...