50 thoughts on “Talking porcupine noms pumpkin”

    1. Awwww. I never heard of a prehensile tailed porcupine. You can see his little ears!

  5. Ah this must be Teddy who eats corn as well and usually appears dressed for different holidays. His noises and actions are similar to guinea pigs.

      1. Yeah I remember looking it all up when I saw how Teddy behaves as my guinea pigs behaved identically when I had them.

    2. Amazing.
      I loved one of the comments on youtube,
      “…this porcupine has made more sense than the last 40 years of presidents and congressmen.”

    3. Dressed?

      Someone has the job of dressing a porcupine? How do they dress themselves for the job, mediaeval armour?

  7. More fun facts to know: At least some porcupines smell very much like stale, sweaty armpits. (Smelled and observed from about 15 feet while it was eating a strip of bark from a small ponderosa pine. Its choice of diet may have been responsible for the junior high boy’s locker room smell.)

    While I was visiting a reservation in North Dakota I mentioned to my hosts that I had passed a dead porcupine on the roadside not too far away. Someone promptly jumped in his car to retrieve it – the quills being an important part of regalia decoration and porcupines being few and far between.

    2. Yeah, my mom’s friend is embarrassed when her mother stops to get porcupine quills off road kill.

    3. In my teens I came across a dead porcupine while in North Dakota (or was it Wyoming?) Anyway, I collected lots of quills and I think I still have some somewhere…

  9. It’s merely the sound of total ecstasy! Comparable to what you say when eating the finest 5 star restaurant gourmet meal plus a fine old wine. Plus, maybe the animal was REALLY hungry!!
    There used to be up in the woods not far from us a dilapidated shed in which dwelled a pack, herd, or pair of porcupines. And yes, the smell in the area was vivid and musty and unpleasant.

    1. Ohhh, sooo cute. He does talk! I heard him say, “I like that”, “it’s good’, and ‘not done yet’, nom nom nom…. 😀

      I bet when he was eating his pumpkin he was warning the hoomanz to get away and not try to steal his food again.

      1. Ha ha! A lot of people thought they could hear him say things and in several languages – if you are German, you hear him say things in German for instance. It’s a good example of how humans look for patterns where there are none. 🙂

        I didn’t hear any phrases by maybe my aural pattern seeking sub routine is busted.

    2. Oh that is amazing! Like Smokedpaprika, I heard him say words too!
      He sounds like Sesame Street’s Elmo at a helium party : )

          2. …or over at Mom & Dad’s for dinner. No, come to think of it, it’s definitely my big…brain that accounts for my success this round!

            b&

        1. Ha ha! I never heard of that expression/meme & now I must try it out on unsuspecting and equally as unhip friends of mine!

  11. Sounds like they’d be great pets as long as you wear a blacksmith’s apron and welding gloves as your normal attire. Oh, and didn’t mind the smell.

    Porcupine mating habits are very amusing as well:

    http://paulding.net/porcupine.html

    “As the mating season approached, young females become more nervous and excited and put more “vim, vigor and action” into their activities. They would even “seize, straddle, and ride sticks about the cage” walking erect and stimulating their genitalia with the stick.”

    “He often walked about the cage on three legs, clutching at his genitals with his free left front paw. Like the females, the male rubbed his genitals on objects in the cage, and it appeared that the larger the object the more attractive as a rubbing place. ”

    “When the male encountered the female porcupine he smelled her all over, then reared up on his hind legs, his penis fully erect. If the female was not ready she ran away. If she is prepared for mating she also reared up and faced the male, belly-to-belly. In this position most males then sprayed the female with a strong stream of urine (In one case, urine was measured on the lab floor 6 foot 7 inches from the point of discharge), soaking her from head to foot.”

    and the most obvious part of it:

    ” Males do not grasp the female in any way. ”

    good idea, males, good idea

  14. While my wife and I were watching this porcupine yum yumming away, our
    dog polished off a plate of very fine French Port Salut and crackers that we left standing on the stove. The cats are complaining that they didn’t get anything. We passed the site on to many friends. Its a hit.

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