"Have you ever heard the noises a porcupine makes? Take a listen below!" - Saco River Wildlife Center | The National Desk - TND

📣 Volume up! 📣Porcupines are vocal critters and create a wide array of sounds in various different ways, including shrill screeches, coughs, groans, whines, teeth chatters, and low grunts. These vocalizations are an important communication tool and are used to warn predators and communicate with each other.🎥 Max Riley/USFWS [Video: a nighttime scene of a porcupine exploring the ground while making low pitched whining sounds] | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region

Porcupine nurses her baby! A porcupette or baby porcupine, born this year at the Emperor Valley Zoo, is seen nursing from its mother. A female Prehensile-tailed porcupine, usually gives birth to a single offspring at a time. She will suckle her young for about 3 months. The baby is then slowly introduced to solid foods. This porcupette has already begun foraging for food but will still sometimes nurse from mom. It will grow to adult size in less than a year and will reach sexual maturity in less

Rare footage of a tiny, baby porcupine - known as a porcupette! Did you know porcupettes are born with soft, flexible quills that quickly harden upon contact with air? This definitely makes mum's life easier! 📸 Miyoba Mbaama | Africa Geographic