STRIPED SKUNK
STRIPED SKUNK
Characteristics: There is no confusing this one: starkly marked with a white stripe on a silky, black body. Skunks are stout, short-legged animals. They usually have a pair of parallel stripes that can vary in width and length. Skunks stand six inches at the shoulder and weigh three to eight pounds. They have a distinctive aroma, dispersed when agitated from a pair of well developed musk glands.
I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature’s ways of fang and claw or exposure and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow. – Fred Bear