If you’ve never seen a porcupine eating corn on the cob, today is your lucky day. It’s much cuter than you think. Mandalay Farms in Jupiter, Florida, shares cute updates on social media about animals like Quilby the porcupine. Quilby, in particular, is famous online for his sweet tooth. A recent video shows Quilby happily munching on a piece of corn on the cob.
Mandalay Farms is a private farm and animal sanctuary that keeps animals such as horses and miniature donkeys, llamas, goats, emus, turkeys and potbellied pigs. Quilby is the farm’s prehensile-tailed porcupine.
According to Mandalay Farms, in the wild, these herbivores forage for food among trees. In human care, prehensile-tailed porcupines eat a variety of fruits and vegetables – including yams, bananas, carrots, spinach and more. Quilby’s favorite snacks include sweet potato slices, “herbivore cookies,” apples and, of course, corn.
Here Quilby is nibbling on a slice of sweet potato.
And here is a photo of Quilby eating corn on the cob:
Due to Mandalay Farms’ Instagram privacy settings, we are unable to embed the video, but you can watch a porcupine eating corn in Mandalay Farms’ Instagram video (and remember to turn the sound on)!
Is that cute or what?
