Seattle zoo's baby porcupine is prickly but precious

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Seattle zoo's baby porcupine is prickly but precious

There’s a new porcupette at Woodland Park Zoo; that’s a fancy word for a baby porcupine.

Photo by Jenny Pramuk/Woodland Park Zoo.

(Photo by Kirsten Pisto/Woodland Park Zoo)

(Photo by Kirsten Pisto/Woodland Park Zoo)

(Photo by Kirsten Pisto/Woodland Park Zoo)

A baby porcupine is known as a porcupette. Born last Friday, May 15, this North American porcupine baby, whose sex is not yet known, weighed just over a pound at birth. It’s now pushing about 1.5 pounds (700 grams). (Photo by Kirsten Pisto/Woodland Park Zoo)

Click here to read about it on the zoo's page. (Photo by Kirsten Pisto/Woodland Park Zoo)

The resemblance is uncanny. (left) A porcupine baby at Woodland Park Zoo in 2013, photo by Dennis Dow/Woodland Park Zoo. (right) Growing pineapples, photo by Roman Lashkin via flickr Creative Commons.

(Photo by Kirsten Pisto/Woodland Park Zoo)

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Photo by Jenny Pramuk/Woodland Park Zoo.

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