Porcupine Baby

Filed in: Cute & Funny — August 19th, 2005

 

Correction: they are hedgehog babies, not porcupine. Sorry for the mistake.

We saw Porcupine hedgehog in the zoo, but have you ever see Porcupine hedgehog’s baby before? Here you are.

Porcupine Baby

Aren’t they cute? Looks like small durian. :P

[ Thanks, Mel ]

Related Hedgehog books:

The Hedgehog : An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet (Happy Healthy Pet) The Hedgehog : An Owner’s Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet (Happy Healthy Pet)
Hedgehogs: Everything About Housing, Care Nutrition, Breeding, and Health Care (Complete Pet Owner's Manual) Hedgehogs: Everything About Housing, Care Nutrition, Breeding, and Health Care (Complete Pet Owner’s Manual)
Hedgehogs in the Hall (Animal Ark) Hedgehogs in the Hall (Animal Ark)

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  • Allie Caruso
    tere sooooooo
    cute.!!!!!!!!!!
  • autumn johnson
    they r so sute wat r there names send me more and more pictures every day and how much r they and i love them is there only three well got to go i will check my msn every day for hose pictures and if u want to talk add me at pinklipgloss_9 at yahoo dot com
  • Hadi
    OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Iwant one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!they are SO CUTE!!!!!
  • OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE TO HAVE ONE!! THOSE ARE SO CUTE!!!!!!
  • Ashley
    OMG!!! i want one!!!! those r sooooooo cute!
  • Raianda
    their so cute i wish i can hold one
  • bethany
    awwwwwwwwwwwwwww cute
  • That was so cute. But I really cant make out if what I am seeing is the underside or something else of the animal..
  • those are cute..but the middle looks geli
  • these are hoglets (baby hedgehogs). they are born with the quills but since its wet, they are soft. when it dries, they will harden but the texture is like a brush. and it wont shoot out.

    how i know? i'm a hog breeder.
  • Marianne
    They look more like chestnut burrs than durian fruit. ;-)http://www.answers.com/topic/chestnut?method=22
  • Lola
    Porcupines are the ones who are born with quills - they're very soft at birth and begin to harden immediately afterward, on contact with air. Hedgehogs, like these, are actually born without quills exposed - just little bumps that look like pimples where the quills start erupting from the skin within hours after they are born.
  • Emily
    I can't find ANYTHING cuter than those baby hedgehogs!

    they are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...cute.
  • Amy
    Ok...those are baby hedgehogs as I breed them. You can see pics of them from their first day of birth at photoshop.com user: TenshisQuills.
    Those hedgies look to be about 2 weeks old. Very cute stage.
    They also DO make good pets. NO they can't shoot quills (neither can porcupines but that's another story). And finally they are very cute.
  • hedgehog have ability to roll into a tight ball., these tiny hedgehog are very cute but they need to learn how to roll from their mom first.........

    sonic the hedgehog you know..
  • these would look very cute . . . in my belly
  • nice side but hard to find:(
  • MW de Jager
    Those are Hedgehogs, NOT porcupines.
  • I ended up drawing a hedgehog for illustration friday

    http://alisonashwell.blogspot.com/2005/08/illus...

    - probably seeing the photo earlier in the week triggered the idea.
  • congrats on the boingboing traffic
  • I thought hedgehogs were supposed to be pointy. Maybe with them being so light, they don't hurt much. What did the mommy hedgehog think?
  • It's 4.30 AM here in Turkey and a grown up version of these cute critters is descimating my garden! Wot wiv the porcupine and the wild pigs I'm lucky to have an garden left at all!
  • Kelvin
    this is AMAZING!! whish I could I have one for keeps!
  • Cindy
    Don't get any ideas from this photo.
    Cute yes, good pets - NO!
    These animals are not friendly to humans and are nocturnal.
  • They are tooo cute!!
  • christina
    well cute regardless although if those are hedgehogs then I REALLY REALLY want to now see what baby porcupines look like
  • Brad
    Those aren't porcupines, they are hedgehogs.
  • Jenna
    Adorable! :)
  • hyper cute!
    I wonder if they are soft
  • I love hedgehogs- this is a brilliant photo
  • Those are not porcupines, they are baby hedgehogs.
  • Jeff
    Those don't look very fast.....
  • sozin
    I added your pic to the wikipedia page on hedgehogs.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog#List_of_s...

    hope thats ok
  • Super cute! Hey, say that they look like durina wasn't nice. :D
  • Elena
    I read somewhere that the spikes on baby hedgehogs are actually quite soft. Thus it won't hurt the mother during birth
  • LcF
    It is my fault. I did not check carefully and follow the forwarded email subject. :)
  • I once played in a band called Tres Buddas. This would have made a cool cover for the CD.
  • arr...wth I wrote....i mean boing boing also uses porcupine to describe it.

    I think blog will have very high influence power later in the future...even if you wrote it wrongly, people may just believe it...:)
  • hehe...biongbiong still also writes porcupine
  • LcF
    Yes, they are hedgehogs. Sorry for the mistake.
  • batwrangler
    I'm willing to be that these cuties are actually family Erinaceidae (probably specifically Atelerix frontalis (southern African hedgehog) or Echinops telfairi (lesser hedgehog tenrec)) rather than family Erethizontidae (the New World porcupines).
  • Marasmus
    Those aren't porcupines - they're HEDGEHOGS ;)
  • are those porcupines or hedgehogs?
  • Luna_C
    I think those are hedghog babies and not porcupine babies.

    http://www.hamorhollow.com/content/view/41/36/1/1/

    Peace,
  • Strangely, they are way cuter than the picture of the baby panda CNN had a picture of the other day.
  • colin
    Wow. Those must have hurt coming out.
  • I didn't realize they were born with the spines... so... how does that affect the mother?
  • Awesome! Don't the quills shoot out? Or maybe they're just not developed yet?
  • So cute!
  • wow..they are cuter than I tought. I saw once while camping...it is pretty cute too...the way it walk is like unstable...but I am not going near one of this thing when it grow up.
  • wowh, they are super cute!
  • Porcupine babies? Maybe. But, I'd swear I saw one or two of 'em at a family reunion.
  • Never seen a procupine in a Zoo, but photographed this one in my garden last night

    I think the babies were probably easier to photograph ;-)
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