The Forth Worth Zoo in Texas welcomed a new porcupette — a baby prehensile-tailed porcupine — on May 17. The zoo plans to ...

The Milwaukee County Zoo welcomed a new resident three weeks ago: a baby prehensile-tailed porcupine. The unnamed porcupette was born to mom Quinn and dad Seamus on March 27, the zoo announced Friday.

The baby is being weighed daily to monitor its growth.Prehensile-tailed porcupines are native to the forests and rainforests of South America, including Venezuela, Brazil, and Argentina.

When a porcupine feels threatened, it tenses up and attacks predators with a swat of its quill-covered tail. Some quills may become embedded into the predator’s skin. Occasionally, loose quills ...

(WATE) — It’s not every day you hear of an exotic pet escaping in East Tennessee, but the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency was recently brought in to help rescue a pet porcupine that ...

Porcupines in North America have strong jaws and can strip bark from trees. Jeff Gage/Florida Museum, CC BY-ND Two competing hypotheses could explain the similarity. Some scientists argued that the ...

Super-sweet video shows a prehensile-tailed porcupine tucking into a juicy corn on the cob at Battersea Park Children’s Zoo. The adorable footage (click to play above) shows Rico - a prehensile ...

Super-sweet video shows a prehensile-tailed porcupine tucking into a juicy corn on the cob at Battersea Park Children’s Zoo. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Yorkshire Evening Post ...

He believed it resembled Sphiggurus melanurus, a black-tailed dwarf porcupine, but this creature was half its size, suggesting that it might be a new species Five years later, mammalogist Robert ...