A baby porcupine born last week at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Institute in D.C. is already receiving visitors, the zoo said Wednesday.

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.

The National Zoo is welcoming a baby porcupine. The new porcupette is the fourth child of Beatrix and Quillbur, after ...

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"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 new addition is the third offspring born to parents Prickles and Shadow, two prehensile-tailed porcupines at the Stone Zoo in Massachusetts A New England zoo recently welcomed a new — and spiky — ...

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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 ...

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 ...