We were fortunate enough on Sunday to see the porcupines being trained at the zoo. This is referred to as “medical training”. The theory appears to be that you can either wrestle a grumpy porcupine onto a set of scales when it gets ill, or train it to get onto a set of scales (represented here by the pallet) of its own free will. It is also great entertainment for the visitors (and the lions in the enclosure opposite). Porcupines like kumara.
