Turtle Back Zoo Welcomes Baby Porcupine Just in Time for Mother’s Day
(May 1, 2015 – West Orange, NJ): Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange, NJ has welcomed their newest “zoo born,” an unsexed baby porcupine – or porcupette. Born on April 16, mother and baby are doing well and are officially on exhibit. So visitors to the zoo can see them just in time for Mother’s Day – what a wonderful way to celebrate the bond between mother and child! While their Latin name technically means “quill pig,” porcupines are actually rodents. These sharp dressed mammals are actually covered with soft hair as well as quills, which are actually modified hairs, that stand up when a