Skunk's Strategy Not Just Black And White. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 11 / 091111092053.htm. University of California - Davis.

Unfortunately, neither black-and-white warning colors nor the squatty body of a skunk provides any protection when the predator is a 4,000-pound vehicle barreling down the highway.

I have to say, as far as oddities in the outdoors, the nearly all-white skunk tops the list. I have to say, ... If one looks closely, the black part of the creature's face can be seen in the photo.

The babies are born with black and white ... I call him Blackie cause he doesn't have a white tip. - [Narrator] With 30 to 80 skunk ... But only the skunk family has raised the anal spray to an art.

Predators with experience of skunks avoid them both because of their black-and-white coloration and their distinctive body shape, a new study has found.