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 ;-)
David Geer
· 4 years ago
Porcupine babies? Maybe. But, I'd swear I saw one or two of 'em at a family reunion.
geckoseiya
· 4 years ago
wowh, they are super cute!
8dee
· 4 years ago
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.
Joanna
· 4 years ago
So cute!
Eighty
· 4 years ago
Awesome! Don't the quills shoot out? Or maybe they're just not developed yet?
Colin
· 4 years ago
I didn't realize they were born with the spines... so... how does that affect the mother?
colin
· 4 years ago
Wow. Those must have hurt coming out.
N. Mallory
· 4 years ago
Strangely, they are way cuter than the picture of the baby panda CNN had a picture of the other day.
Luna_C
· 4 years ago
I think those are hedghog babies and not porcupine babies.
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).
LcF
· 4 years ago
Yes, they are hedgehogs. Sorry for the mistake.
8dee
· 4 years ago
hehe...biongbiong still also writes porcupine
8dee
· 4 years ago
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...:)
mfds
· 4 years ago
I once played in a band called Tres Buddas. This would have made a cool cover for the CD.
LcF
· 4 years ago
It is my fault. I did not check carefully and follow the forwarded email subject. :)
Elena
· 4 years ago
I read somewhere that the spikes on baby hedgehogs are actually quite soft. Thus it won't hurt the mother during birth
Bibi
· 4 years ago
Super cute! Hey, say that they look like durina wasn't nice. :D
sozin
· 4 years ago
I added your pic to the wikipedia page on hedgehogs.
Those are not porcupines, they are baby hedgehogs.
alison ashwell
· 4 years ago
I love hedgehogs- this is a brilliant photo
marco
· 4 years ago
hyper cute! I wonder if they are soft
Jenna
· 4 years ago
Adorable! :)
Brad
· 4 years ago
Those aren't porcupines, they are hedgehogs.
christina
· 4 years ago
well cute regardless although if those are hedgehogs then I REALLY REALLY want to now see what baby porcupines look like
JustAgirl
· 4 years ago
They are tooo cute!!
Cindy
· 4 years ago
Don't get any ideas from this photo. Cute yes, good pets - NO! These animals are not friendly to humans and are nocturnal.
Kelvin
· 4 years ago
this is AMAZING!! whish I could I have one for keeps!
Stephen Bray
· 4 years ago
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!
Jack Vinson
· 4 years ago
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?
colbert
· 4 years ago
congrats on the boingboing traffic
alison ashwell
· 4 years ago
I ended up drawing a hedgehog for illustration friday
- probably seeing the photo earlier in the week triggered the idea.
MW de Jager
· 4 years ago
Those are Hedgehogs, NOT porcupines.
Joyy
· 4 years ago
nice side but hard to find:(
J saint
· 4 years ago
these would look very cute . . . in my belly
mr.eims
· 3 years ago
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..
Amy
· 3 years ago
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.
Emily
· 3 years ago
I can't find ANYTHING cuter than those baby hedgehogs!
they are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...cute.
Lola
· 3 years ago
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.
Marianne
· 3 years ago
They look more like chestnut burrs than durian fruit. ;-)http://www.answers.com/topic/chestnut?method=22
budokid
· 3 years ago
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.
Wahlau .NET
· 3 years ago
those are cute..but the middle looks geli
Anand - Technorita
· 3 years ago
That was so cute. But I really cant make out if what I am seeing is the underside or something else of the animal..
bethany
· 2 years ago
awwwwwwwwwwwwwww cute
Raianda
· 2 years ago
their so cute i wish i can hold one
Ashley
· 2 years ago
OMG!!! i want one!!!! those r sooooooo cute!
s.o.u.d.n
· 1 year ago
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE TO HAVE ONE!! THOSE ARE SO CUTE!!!!!!
Hadi
· 1 year ago
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Iwant one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!they are SO CUTE!!!!!
autumn johnson
· 1 year ago
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
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I think the babies were probably easier to photograph ;-)
http://www.hamorhollow.com/content/view/41/36/1/1/
Peace,
I think blog will have very high influence power later in the future...even if you wrote it wrongly, people may just believe it...:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog#List_of_s...
hope thats ok
I wonder if they are soft
Cute yes, good pets - NO!
These animals are not friendly to humans and are nocturnal.
http://alisonashwell.blogspot.com/2005/08/illus...
- probably seeing the photo earlier in the week triggered the idea.
sonic the hedgehog you know..
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.
they are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...cute.
how i know? i'm a hog breeder.
cute.!!!!!!!!!!