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.
Aren’t they cute? Looks like small durian. 
[ Thanks, Mel ]
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August 19th, 2005 at 3:38 pm
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
August 19th, 2005 at 11:17 pm
Porcupine babies? Maybe. But, I’d swear I saw one or two of ‘em at a family reunion.
August 20th, 2005 at 12:38 am
wowh, they are super cute!
August 20th, 2005 at 2:46 am
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.
August 20th, 2005 at 7:12 am
So cute!
August 20th, 2005 at 7:14 am
Awesome! Don’t the quills shoot out? Or maybe they’re just not developed yet?
August 20th, 2005 at 7:54 am
I didn’t realize they were born with the spines… so… how does that affect the mother?
August 20th, 2005 at 8:03 am
Wow. Those must have hurt coming out.
August 20th, 2005 at 8:08 am
Strangely, they are way cuter than the picture of the baby panda CNN had a picture of the other day.
August 20th, 2005 at 8:08 am
I think those are hedghog babies and not porcupine babies.
http://www.hamorhollow.com/content/view/41/36/1/1/
Peace,
August 20th, 2005 at 8:09 am
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August 20th, 2005 at 8:24 am
are those porcupines or hedgehogs?
August 20th, 2005 at 8:39 am
Those aren’t porcupines – they’re HEDGEHOGS
August 20th, 2005 at 8:45 am
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August 20th, 2005 at 9:12 am
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).
August 20th, 2005 at 9:35 am
Yes, they are hedgehogs. Sorry for the mistake.
August 20th, 2005 at 10:34 am
hehe…biongbiong still also writes porcupine
August 20th, 2005 at 10:36 am
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…:)
August 20th, 2005 at 10:41 am
I once played in a band called Tres Buddas. This would have made a cool cover for the CD.
August 20th, 2005 at 10:51 am
It is my fault. I did not check carefully and follow the forwarded email subject.
August 20th, 2005 at 12:36 pm
I read somewhere that the spikes on baby hedgehogs are actually quite soft. Thus it won’t hurt the mother during birth
August 20th, 2005 at 1:20 pm
Super cute! Hey, say that they look like durina wasn’t nice.
August 20th, 2005 at 2:57 pm
I added your pic to the wikipedia page on hedgehogs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog#List_of_species
hope thats ok
August 20th, 2005 at 5:34 pm
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August 20th, 2005 at 9:51 pm
Those don’t look very fast…..
August 20th, 2005 at 10:57 pm
Those are not porcupines, they are baby hedgehogs.
August 21st, 2005 at 4:18 am
I love hedgehogs- this is a brilliant photo
August 21st, 2005 at 5:28 am
hyper cute!
I wonder if they are soft
August 21st, 2005 at 5:47 am
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August 21st, 2005 at 11:07 am
Adorable!
August 21st, 2005 at 12:46 pm
Those aren’t porcupines, they are hedgehogs.
August 21st, 2005 at 3:08 pm
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August 21st, 2005 at 7:38 pm
well cute regardless although if those are hedgehogs then I REALLY REALLY want to now see what baby porcupines look like
August 21st, 2005 at 10:30 pm
They are tooo cute!!
August 22nd, 2005 at 2:46 am
Don’t get any ideas from this photo.
Cute yes, good pets – NO!
These animals are not friendly to humans and are nocturnal.
August 22nd, 2005 at 6:57 am
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August 22nd, 2005 at 9:08 am
this is AMAZING!! whish I could I have one for keeps!
August 22nd, 2005 at 9:33 am
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!
August 22nd, 2005 at 10:05 am
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August 24th, 2005 at 12:19 am
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August 24th, 2005 at 6:00 am
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August 25th, 2005 at 5:52 am
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?
August 25th, 2005 at 1:51 pm
congrats on the boingboing traffic
August 28th, 2005 at 9:54 am
I ended up drawing a hedgehog for illustration friday
http://alisonashwell.blogspot.com/2005/08/illustration-friday-dreams.html
– probably seeing the photo earlier in the week triggered the idea.
September 9th, 2005 at 4:45 pm
Those are Hedgehogs, NOT porcupines.
September 15th, 2005 at 9:19 pm
nice side but hard to find:(
December 24th, 2005 at 9:29 pm
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December 26th, 2005 at 6:18 am
these would look very cute . . . in my belly
January 15th, 2006 at 2:01 am
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February 21st, 2006 at 12:51 am
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..
March 2nd, 2006 at 4:10 am
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March 2nd, 2006 at 10:59 pm
[...] to this) (Parent) (Thread) yathin 2005-09-06 11:07 am UTC (link) Wow, follow the link and you get a correction here:http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2005/08/porcupine-baby/I guessthe main difference is quills and they look kinda different – a porcupine looks bigger and the head is clearly visible. Also, more scientifically, Hedgehogs are not rodents, but porcupines are. [...]
March 3rd, 2006 at 2:18 am
[...] Who knew baby porcupines looked so cute? via Boing BoingI feel like there should be a video game in the mist of this somewhere.Correction: They’re not baby porcupines; they’re hedgehogs! Oh, it seems so obvious now. This most have been some sort of ploy by Sega to recapture Sonic’s popularity. Anyway, what’s the difference between a hedgehog and a porcupine again? 4 comments [...]
March 7th, 2006 at 12:58 am
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.
March 7th, 2006 at 8:37 am
I can’t find ANYTHING cuter than those baby hedgehogs!
they are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…cute.
April 9th, 2006 at 1:54 pm
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.
April 22nd, 2006 at 4:53 am
They look more like chestnut burrs than durian fruit.
http://www.answers.com/topic/chestnut?method=22
September 19th, 2006 at 10:05 am
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.
October 10th, 2006 at 8:32 pm
those are cute..but the middle looks geli
October 18th, 2006 at 4:41 am
That was so cute. But I really cant make out if what I am seeing is the underside or something else of the animal..
April 25th, 2007 at 3:58 am
awwwwwwwwwwwwwww cute
October 15th, 2007 at 7:56 am
their so cute i wish i can hold one
October 30th, 2007 at 3:32 am
OMG!!! i want one!!!! those r sooooooo cute!
January 18th, 2008 at 8:14 am
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE TO HAVE ONE!! THOSE ARE SO CUTE!!!!!!
May 21st, 2008 at 7:50 am
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Iwant one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!they are SO CUTE!!!!!
July 5th, 2008 at 11:26 am
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
August 30th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
tere sooooooo
cute.!!!!!!!!!!