Waffle

When Aggie and I were at Nashville zoo back in May, she was disappointed that all she could see of the porcupines was their rear ends. Yesterday, I was in Emmen zoo as part of a company outing, and got to take a few shots with my cellphone camera. Most of them were no good, because the cellphone camera is too slow and doesn't have zoom... but this one turned out all right.

Small child looking at a porcupine raising its spines, shot in Emmen Zoo. Click to enlarge.

The porcupines were in a bad mood that day. This one had its spines raised because one keeper whom it disliked was in the area. Later on, I caught two porcupines fighting, again with spines raised. They attack by nipping at one another and pushing, and only use the spines for defense.

I use the cellphone camera as sort of a toy camera that will get me into the habit of photographing interesting things, before dropping money on a real camera. It's not great, but then you don't learn to play the violin on a Stradivarius either.