Meet Nigel The 'Coendou' – The Cutest Animal You've Never Seen (Pics & Video)

Cuteness comes in all shapes, sizes, and...textures? Yep! Even prickly critters can tip the charts on the sweetness scale, and Nigel is no exception. This cool dude is one of Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium's most unusual species, a coendou, which falls under the porcupine family. They're sometimes called prehensile-tailed porcupines because of their tail's ability to grasp objects, and if that's not cool, we don't know what is.

Some people didn't know they could love such a creature this much. A user named @AlecBaldwinTactical commented under the video saying, "whaaaat I didn't know I liked these things". It's crazy how its cute Boop-able nose made people want to cuddle it despite carrying the risk of being pricked. @kittymom23 wrote, "I just want to hold him .. it's cuteness overload that nose