Porcupine at the Lion Country Safari

North American Wildlife

Porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum)
The porcupine is primarily nocturnal and active year-round.  After a seven-month gestation, a single young porcupine is born in May or June.  The quills of the young are well formed and soft and will harden within an hour after the birth.
Photographer - Michael S. Quinton

Lion Country Safari
2013

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Lion Country Safari is a drive-through safari park located in Loxahatchee (near West Palm Beach), in Palm Beach County, Florida. Founded in 1967, it claims to be the first 'cageless zoo' in the United States.
In 2009, USA Travel Guide named Lion Country the 3rd best zoo in the nation.