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ugly. They aren't ugly; they just have lots of

quills. In fact, each one has about 33,000

quills. It would take the fastest person

almost ten hours to count every quill, not to

mention that each one is needle sharp.

A porcupine’s babies are called porcupettes.

Porcupettes are big-real big! As big as a

softball. That may not seem very large, but it

would be about equal to your little brother or

sister weiging 80 pounds at birth. Can you

imagine your mom giving birth to an 80-

pound baby? Can you imagine carrying

around a baby that big? Can you imagine

having to find clothes that big for your baby

brother or sister? Now it’s not that

porcupines are proud and show off their

babies. Porcupines arent’ proud; they just

have big babies.

To make matters even more difficult, baby

porcupines are fully quilled at birth. That’s

right-33,000 sharp quills! The porcupette is