Happy Thought for 28 February 2025
Ha ve a Happy Tho ught: A baby porcupine is called a porcupette . That’s it, that’s all you need this week. Ok fine, here’s some pictures of porcupettes . (And, according to porcupine researchers , their little noses really are soft and adorable to boop . But you shouldn’t, because they’re wild animals. ) Image: Prehensile Tailed Porcupine ( Coendou Prehensilis ), Lehigh Valley Zoo Image: North American porcupine. (Joshua Lewis / Seattle Refined) Image: North American porcupine and porcupette . By Sandy Brown Jensen from Eugene, OR, USA - Porcupines, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59590970 A baby prehensile-tailed porcupine born at Brookfield Zoo in 2018. (Jim Schulz / Chicago Zoological Society)