More than 30 baby skunks, many of them orphaned and dehydrated, arrived at a central Pennsylvania wildlife center this week, ...

The Pittsfield Police Department Animal Control Unit rescued six baby skunks, or kits, and took them to a local wildlife rehabilitator. They will receive the care they need and will be released back ...

Two skunk species live in Washington and Idaho – the common striped version that many of us see or smell in the neighborhood and the western spotted skunk that sticks to forest edges ...

The striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis), North America’s most common skunk species, typically maintains a territory of about 1.5 square miles, while the smaller spotted skunks may ... Skunks possess ...

All weasels have prominent musk glands ... Spotted skunk (Photo provided) Great-horned owls are one of most successful predators of skunks, perhaps because they lack a well-developed sense of smell.

At first whiff, you might think all skunks are ... while researching spotted skunks and never caught one. And if you do trap one, you're bound to be sprayed. "We call it the smell of success ...

While most skunk sprayings don’t do permanent harm to dogs, they will make your dog stink and possibly make it nauseous, as the scent may cling to the dog for days. Skunks live throughout North ...

Skunks can spray a special fluid from their stink glands up to 15 feet with stinky precision ... with the hog-nosed skunks having striped patterns and spotted skunks having a spotted pattern. Badgers ...

That’s why I can say with full confidence that no creature on God’s green earth can perform a handstand with quite as much gumption or grace as the spotted skunk. That’s right, a skunk.

Spotted Skunks are smaller than their striped cousins ... Fortunately, skunks, which have notoriously poor eyesight, are born with an excellent sense of smell. Their scent glands are not fully ...

Both striped and spotted skunks tend to use their scent glands to ward off any potential ... When humans are around, it's more likely that you will smell a skunk because they feel frightened ...