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Skunks are easy to identify by appearance—and smell! But these handsome mammals typically mind their own business and are ...

At first whiff, you might think all skunks are the same. Not so. Meet spotted skunks, “the acrobats of the skunk world.” Scientists have discovered that there are more of these species than ...

They’re known as the spotted skunks, and they do something the stripeys can’t. Spotted skunks perform a spread-eagled handstand before they spray you. “I jokingly call them the acrobats of ...

Spotted skunks are tiny acrobats. Weighing in at less than two pounds, they plant their front paws firmly on the ground, throw their hind legs into the air and let their tail splay out like ...

Coming in at about 10 inches long and 1 pound, they are the smallest of Costa Rica’s skunk species. Spotted skunks are nocturnal. Some species are listed as nocturnal but I’ll still record them during ...

At first whiff, you might think all skunks are the same. Not so. Meet spotted skunks, "the acrobats of the skunk world." Scientists have discovered that there are more of these species than they ...

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 ...

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.