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'Fantastic Beasts' can actually now be found...At the Longleat Safari Park.<br />
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This prickly customer, looking just like a baby Niffler from the hit Eddie Redmayne movie Fantastic Beasts, is actually a young Prehensile-tailed porcupine (Coendou prehensilis) recently arrived at the Wiltshire Safari Park.<br />
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The odd looking South American creature spends nearly all of it's life in trees, deploying its prehensile tail as a fifth hand in the safety of the treetops.

BNPS.co.uk (01202 558833)
Pic: Longleat/BNPS

'Fantastic Beasts' can actually now be found...At the Longleat Safari Park.

This prickly customer, looking just like a baby Niffler from the hit Eddie Redmayne movie Fantastic Beasts, is actually a young Prehensile-tailed porcupine (Coendou prehensilis) recently arrived at the Wiltshire Safari Park.

The odd looking South American creature spends nearly all of it's life in trees, deploying its prehensile tail as a fifth hand in the safety of the treetops.