In the early hours of May 17, Fort Worth Zoo in Texas welcomed its first prehensile-tailed porcupine baby. The tiny, fluffy porcupette is an offspring of mom Piper and dad Quilliam.

Prehensile-tailed Porcupine Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Click to open ... Mammalia,Phylum: Chordata,Kingdom: Animalia,Rodent,Prehensile-tailed ...

Rico, a 9-year-old prehensile-tailed Brazilian porcupine who has been delighting visitors at the Cincinnati Zoo for years, ...

Prehensile Tail Porcupines "Porcupines have tails?" asked a commenter named Rory. "My entire life has changed." I know what you mean! Many porcupine species don't have long, usable tails like this ...

If I'm a prehensile-tailed porcupine, I should be able to climb a tree in my exhibit," Amos Morris, the zoo's executive director, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

If I'm a prehensile-tailed porcupine, I should be able to climb a tree in my exhibit," Amos Morris, the zoo's executive director, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

A prehensile-tailed porcupine. The Fort Worth Zoo welcomed to the world one of these porcupines, also called a porcupette, recently.

The habitat is home to the following species: Ring-tailed lemurs, Hoffmann’s two-toed sloths, Dwarf mongooses, Prehensile-tailed porcupines, Cotton-top tamarins, Bushbaby Fennec foxes, Southern ...