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 ...

Heartwarming footage shows how zookeepers saved the life of a cute baby porcupine – by hand-rearing him with a bottle and giving daily physiotherapy. Keepers at Blackpool Zoo nursed Dougie back to ...

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.