8/19/2005: Baby porcupines [updated: hedgehogs] - Page 2

xoxoxoBruce · 08-20-2005, 12:37 PM

Well, the hedgehogs outta the bag.

John · 08-20-2005, 01:15 PM

The actual original picture is available here:

http://hedgehogclub.com/gallery.html
http://hedgehogclub.com/gallery/photo3.html

Undertoad · 08-20-2005, 01:32 PM

Thanks John!

richlevy · 08-20-2005, 02:38 PM

Wow, TRIBBLES!

tulzscha · 08-20-2005, 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brianna

How the heck can you tell?

My roomate in college had a baby hedgehog, it started out looking a lot like that.

RQuinn · 08-21-2005, 02:19 AM

For anyone wondering what a baby porcupine really looks like, there's pictures and information about one born earlier this year at

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Sm...yporcupine.cfm

If you Google for 'baby porcupine' you'll see just how common it is for people to mistake hedgehogs as young porcupines. Poor hedgehogs get no recognition.

capnhowdy · 08-21-2005, 10:16 AM

(rap beat in background)...."can't touch this"..........

I don't think we have those down here. No room for them with all the illegals we have.......

wolf · 08-21-2005, 02:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by richlevy

Wow, TRIBBLES!

Thank goodness, it wasn't just me that thought that ...

xoxoxoBruce · 08-21-2005, 02:28 PM

Damn, I never heard of a Prehensile-tailed Porcupine.

Katkeeper · 08-21-2005, 04:41 PM

I think the baby pocupine is really cute, even though I have a fondness for hedgehogs. From reading Alice in Wonderland, and wondering about these animals that were used in croquet games, and then hearing stories aobut them when living in England.

The means of determining the sex of the baby was amusing.

Leah · 08-21-2005, 06:24 PM

Wow how cute those two are. I hope these little guys aren't born with those prickles. How uncomfortable would that be giving birth to those? Be like passing razor blades. Ouch.

Wombat · 08-21-2005, 06:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gerstle

the camera angle makes it look like that person has a ridiculously large and strong thumb at the base. Hm...

What do you call that part of your hand?

It's called the thenar eminence. Useless fact #362.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-21-2005, 07:40 PM

That sounds like a position at the Vatican, Wombat.

wolf · 08-21-2005, 07:55 PM

Or from the Kama Sutra.

Isn't that the one after "Bee Taking Honey from the Flower"?

Bitman · 08-22-2005, 10:51 AM

Oddly, Boing Boing has a similar picture with the same mistake.

08-20-2005, 12:37 PM	#16
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Well, the hedgehogs outta the bag. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. Last edited by xoxoxoBruce; 04-07-2007 at 05:55 PM.

08-20-2005, 02:38 PM	#19
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Wow, TRIBBLES! __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

08-21-2005, 10:16 AM	#22
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	(rap beat in background)...."can't touch this".......... I don't think we have those down here. No room for them with all the illegals we have....... __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

08-21-2005, 02:28 PM	#24
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Damn, I never heard of a Prehensile-tailed Porcupine. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-21-2005, 07:40 PM	#28
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	That sounds like a position at the Vatican, Wombat. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-20-2005, 01:15 PM	#17
John Operations Operative Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 562	The actual original picture is available here: http://hedgehogclub.com/gallery.html http://hedgehogclub.com/gallery/photo3.html

08-20-2005, 01:32 PM	#18
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Thanks John!

08-21-2005, 02:19 AM	#21
RQuinn Reclusive Ghoul Programmer Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 18	For anyone wondering what a baby porcupine really looks like, there's pictures and information about one born earlier this year at http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Sm...yporcupine.cfm If you Google for 'baby porcupine' you'll see just how common it is for people to mistake hedgehogs as young porcupines. Poor hedgehogs get no recognition.

08-21-2005, 04:41 PM	#25
Katkeeper Hoodoo Guru Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Mechanicsburg PA Posts: 296	I think the baby pocupine is really cute, even though I have a fondness for hedgehogs. From reading Alice in Wonderland, and wondering about these animals that were used in croquet games, and then hearing stories aobut them when living in England. The means of determining the sex of the baby was amusing.

08-21-2005, 06:24 PM	#26
Leah Love my Heffalumps Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia (best place in the world) Posts: 346	Wow how cute those two are. I hope these little guys aren't born with those prickles. How uncomfortable would that be giving birth to those? Be like passing razor blades. Ouch.

08-21-2005, 07:55 PM	#29
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Or from the Kama Sutra. Isn't that the one after "Bee Taking Honey from the Flower"? __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

08-22-2005, 10:51 AM	#30
Bitman cellar smellar Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: californy, baby! Posts: 403	Oddly, Boing Boing has a similar picture with the same mistake.

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