Dr. Tim Bean

In terms of average, as far as I know, only two people have ever counted all 30,000. So hard to come up with a comparison.

Oh my God.

Oh my God.

Oh my God.

And I cannot emphasize enough how cute porcupettes are. And photographs do not capture the... Oh my God, they're so small and so cute and just have no idea how painful they could be. But they are born with quills, but the quills haven't hardened yet. So the quills are soft and they're born, I think, head first so that the quills are sort of pointing backwards in North American porcupines.

And I cannot emphasize enough how cute porcupettes are. And photographs do not capture the... Oh my God, they're so small and so cute and just have no idea how painful they could be. But they are born with quills, but the quills haven't hardened yet. So the quills are soft and they're born, I think, head first so that the quills are sort of pointing backwards in North American porcupines.

And I cannot emphasize enough how cute porcupettes are. And photographs do not capture the... Oh my God, they're so small and so cute and just have no idea how painful they could be. But they are born with quills, but the quills haven't hardened yet. So the quills are soft and they're born, I think, head first so that the quills are sort of pointing backwards in North American porcupines.

So they're coming out not against the grain. And then within a couple of hours, the quills will harden.

So they're coming out not against the grain. And then within a couple of hours, the quills will harden.

So they're coming out not against the grain. And then within a couple of hours, the quills will harden.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's a great question. I'm guessing it's like having a wet fingernail.

That's a great question. I'm guessing it's like having a wet fingernail.

That's a great question. I'm guessing it's like having a wet fingernail.

Yeah, definitely. I mean, I think that you could. I think it's the proverbial needle in a haystack trying to find a single quill in the leaf litter. But if they're fighting, like if the males are fighting, or in some circumstances, the females are more territorial and they will fight over territories. then they will quill each other.

Yeah, definitely. I mean, I think that you could. I think it's the proverbial needle in a haystack trying to find a single quill in the leaf litter. But if they're fighting, like if the males are fighting, or in some circumstances, the females are more territorial and they will fight over territories. then they will quill each other.

Yeah, definitely. I mean, I think that you could. I think it's the proverbial needle in a haystack trying to find a single quill in the leaf litter. But if they're fighting, like if the males are fighting, or in some circumstances, the females are more territorial and they will fight over territories. then they will quill each other.

Or if a porcupine falls and a bunch of quills come out, that's, I think, a more likely scenario where you might just find them in nature where they've come out in sort of a pile rather than just a lone quill.