The Forth Worth Zoo in Texas welcomed a new porcupette — a baby prehensile-tailed porcupine — on May 17. The zoo plans to find out the newborn's sex via a quill DNA test.

In the early hours of May 17, Fort Worth Zoo in Texas welcomed its first prehensile-tailed porcupine baby. The tiny, fluffy porcupette is an offspring of mom Piper and dad Quilliam.

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 ...

A baby porcupine’s birth at Utah’s Hogle Zoo is “extra special” as first-time pregnancies aren’t often successful for porcupine mothers, zoo officials said.

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.

A baby porcupine is “growing like a weed” at a zoo in Utah, officials said. The “bundle of quills” was born April 27 to parents Blackberry and Barton, Utah’s Hogle Zoo announced in a May ...

A baby porcupine is “growing like a weed” at a zoo in Utah, officials said. The “bundle of quills” was born April 27 to parents Blackberry and Barton, Utah’s Hogle Zoo announced in a May ...

A baby porcupine is “growing like a weed” at a zoo in Utah, officials said. The “bundle of quills” was born April 27 to parents Blackberry and Barton, Utah’s Hogle Zoo announced in a May ...

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 ...

A baby porcupine is “growing like a weed” at a zoo in Utah, officials said. The “bundle of quills” was born April 27 to parents Blackberry and Barton, Utah’s Hogle Zoo announced in a May ...

A baby porcupine is “growing like a weed” at a zoo in Utah, officials said. The “bundle of quills” was born April 27 to parents Blackberry and Barton, Utah’s Hogle Zoo announced in a May ...

A baby porcupine is “growing like a weed” at a zoo in Utah, officials said. The “bundle of quills” was born April 27 to parents Blackberry and Barton, Utah’s Hogle Zoo announced in a May ...