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Skunk

Mephitis mephitis

Photo by Asrugan
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Field Notes

Description:

Black with white stripped skunk in good health.

Habitat:

Edge of woods and prairie

Notes:

While awake and alert, this skunk was not eager to move, and did not seem alarmed when we were around 6 ft away.

Reference Links:

Skunk

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Comments (2)
Asrugan
All of that is fine and well, but mobile on a phone, it's challenging enough to get the basics in so I can later flesh out the details. I usually do that, then flesh it out later when I can do proper searches.
KarenL
Hi Asrugen, nice spot! Where you know the common name of the species, please could you look up & add the scientific name - it is very easy to do on a Google search. That takes the spotting out of the "unknown" list. We would also appreciate it if you could add a reference link & complete some info in the details field for your spottings.

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PublishedApril 22, 2012

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