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Skunk

Mephitis mephitis

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.

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2 Comments

Asrugan
Asrugan 12 years ago

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
KarenL 12 years ago

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.

Asrugan
Spotted by
Asrugan

Dubuque, Iowa, USA

Spotted on Apr 21, 2012
Submitted on Apr 22, 2012

Spotted for Mission

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