The Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center reported Friday that it was caring for the first Eastern spotted skunk brought to the facility. It came from a neighboring county and due to their scarcity ...

The Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center received its first-ever eastern spotted skunk this week! It was found stuck in a dryer exhaust vent, and was slightly dehydrated, but the animal was still in ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WRIC) — The Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center has received its first-ever eastern spotted skunk from a neighboring county after it was found stuck in a dryer exhaust event.

(WSET) — The Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center is well known for taking in all sorts of animals rescued from the wild, but they currently have a first-time visitor: an Eastern Spotted Skunk.

So what happened with these other skunks on the other side of the country? Tosa: We really don’t have any idea. We have some hypotheses about what happened to these eastern spotted skunks.

The researchers published their findings in the journal Ecosphere and hope this new data can help stave off population declines like those suffered by the eastern spotted skunk decades ago.

"This was really surprising to us. Compared to the eastern spotted skunk, their home ranges are much bigger." Tosa said. She also learned that the western spotted skunks prefer a mix of forest ...

The Eastern spotted skunk, which lives in the central and southeastern U.S., saw a population decline of roughly 90% between 1940 and 1950. By 1980, the decline grew to 99%. The animal is ...

Tosa, Levi and Damon Lesmeister of the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station in Corvallis studied the western spotted skunk in part because of what happened to the eastern ...