{"id":417634,"date":"2026-07-30T05:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417634\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T05:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:39:14","slug":"baby-porcupine-born-at-san-diego-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417634\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Porcupine Born At San Diego Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The female baby porcupine, also known as a porcupette, was born June 22 to mom Gracie and dad Picante. The baby girl, who has not yet been named, was born with reddish-orange fur, a trait unique to the animals that sheds as they mature. <\/p>\n

Prehensile-tailed porcupines are native to the tropical forests of South America. Credit: Ken Bohn\/San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance <\/p>\n

The young porcupine is expected to occasionally appear with her mother during educational presentations at Wildlife Explorers Basecamp and Animals in Action as part of the zoo’s wildlife ambassador program. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The female baby porcupine, also known as a porcupette, was born June 22 to mom Gracie and dad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-417634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}