Feasting on beetles, crickets, grubs, grasshoppers, mice, rats and moles throughout the growing season, skunks are natural pest-control heroes. Skunks can offer us another favor, too. Watching skunks such as this striped skunk in California can be an odor-free delight. Here are a few more tips to keep skunk relations cordial in your yard:. Limit access. To keep skunks from adopting your outbuildings or crawl spaces as ready-made dens, screen openings in your foundation and under porches and keep garages and sheds closed at night.
Hide the food. Skunks will happily snack on accessible treats such as pet food or open garbage, so remove these temptations to keep skunks from habituating to a regular nighttime buffet. Avoid encounters. Keep pets indoors between dusk and dawn, when skunks are most active. Also, keep pets current on their rabies vaccinations and teach your children to observe wildlife from afar.
Safely remove the smell. Instead, soak stinky skin or pet fur with a mix of four cups of hydrogen peroxide, a quarter-cup of baking soda and a teaspoon of dish soap. Leave it on for about five minutes, then rinse. Lynne Warren wrote about conservation photography in the December—January issue. A groundbreaking bipartisan bill aims to address the looming wildlife crisis before it's too late, while creating sorely needed jobs. More than one-third of U. We're on the ground in seven regions across the country, collaborating with 52 state and territory affiliates to reverse the crisis and ensure wildlife thrive.
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In 4 seconds , you will be redirected to nwfactionfund. The National Wildlife Federation. Skunks: Notorious—or Not? Reeking reputation aside, skunks are full of surprises Lynne Warren Animals Mar 27, Body language says it all as a striped skunk nonchalantly emits a whiff to warn off a fox, who takes the hint. Armed and Odorous About the size of big grapes, the anal glands of a striped skunk each hold almost an ounce of concentrated musk, enough for multiple blasts.
Donate Today. They also live under porches and in cellars, stumps, rock piles and refuse heaps and very rarely dig their own dens. To make a nest, the skunk will line an area of its den with leaves, which it gathers by putting under its body and shuffle to the den. The striped skunk is nocturnal. When they come out of their den at night, they will stay close to home.
These skunks only venture about metres from home, yet the can walk approximately two kilometers in one night! During breeding season males take even larger risks and many travel up to eight kilometres at night.
By November or December these little animals select a deep den to sleep the winter away. In some parts of Canada skunks will awaken as early as late February to begin breeding. The babies are born in May and there are typically four to six young in a litter. Newborns are furless at birth, but after just 13 days they have a thick, glossy coat.
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All about Energy. A better regulation of the pet trade could help minimize the risk of animals being intentionally released as unwanted pets. Tighter regulations of the pet trade could also be used to better understand the spatial distribution of captive animals. In particular, information regarding the legalities of de-scenting animals, a procedure that is illegal in some countries and is thought to influence the abandonment of animals, is essential.
Any escapes or releases of animals are likely to occur at a small scale due to the relatively low numbers of animals kept in captivity. Control of escaped animals would likely be carried out through the use of live traps and additional use of camera traps.
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