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Find Out Why Porcupines Are Some of the Most Interesting Animals in the World
Wild Times at the San Diego Zoo
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18/5/2025
Meet Icana, a Brazilian porcupine, and learn what unique feature helps her maintain balance while foraging and sleeping in the trees.
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I'm Tristan, and I'm an educator here at the San Diego Zoo.
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I would love to introduce you to one of my co-workers, but first, I want you to try and guess what she is.
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She has a round nose, sharp spiny quills, and a long prehensile tail.
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Any guesses?
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This is my friend Isana. She's a Brazilian or prehensile-tailed porcupine.
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There are many different species of porcupine, but this particular species comes from Brazil
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and all the surrounding countries down in South America.
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One of my favorite facts about porcupines is that the babies are called porcupettes.
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When Isana was first born, she was actually a very rusty color, almost orange,
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and all of those quills were super soft.
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Then, after a couple of days, they actually turned a little bit harder
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and became the quills that they are today.
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At the end of each one of these quills are sharp barbs.
01:00
Now, those barbs not only make her nice and sharp, but they're sticky, too.
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Ouch!
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Isana is an herbivore, so she uses that big nose to sniff out some of her favorite foods.
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Here at the zoo, she likes to eat bananas, biscuits, and yams.
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Which one do you want today?
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So Isana is a prehensile-tailed porcupine.
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What prehensile means is just that she has that long tail that she can use to grasp onto things,
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just like we use our hands for.
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So she can balance up high in the trees.
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Now, check out these feet, too.
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Not only can she use that tail to balance,
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but she can also use those feet to hang onto those branches
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as she's looking for her favorite foods.
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Since Isana's nocturnal, it's about time for her to head to bed.
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But we'll see you next time!
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And I'll see you then.
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Bye!
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