Arts & Entertainment
Name The Desert Museum's New Porcupine
Tucson's Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum adds a baby North American porcupine to the family.
TUCSON, AZ — The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is asking for Tucson's help naming the latest addition to their family, a young North American Porcupine. People can vote on Facebook and Twitter for one of the following two names: Quilliam and Quillbert.
The animal is just under a year old and has been adjusting to his new surroundings in the Cat Canyon exhibit. The museum was recently ranked as one of the top 30 zoos in the U.S.
Porcupines are members of the rodent family and are the second largest of their kind in North America. Beavers are considered the continent's largest rodent.
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Staff have been sharing pictures of the critter on Twitter:
If you need a face to decide on the name... here he is! #desertmuseum pic.twitter.com/afefF8vETi
— Desert Museum (@desertmuseum) April" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://twitter.com/desertmuse... 16, 2019
The staff says it'll be tallying the votes and announcing the winner on April 22.
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