Skunks will eat just about anything and they’re fearless, as evidenced by a video of a skunk stashing its dinner of roadkill ...

established that the small creatures live in both old growth and young forests and are vulnerable to heavy winter snows. Western spotted skunks are believed to be fairly common, but researchers at ...

A striped skunk may push or pull dried leaves or grasses for bedding material into a den which in winter may extend a meter (3 ft) or more in depth. Striped skunks tend to use dens in autumn and ...

That’s right, February marks the start of the skunk breeding season. If you thought they were sleeping the winter away, ...

Skunk cabbage is the first native wildflower to emerge in Chicago’s woodlands in spring. Other ephemerals will follow, ...

Now that it’s spring, wild animals that spent the winter underground are out and about. Groundhogs can be seen out in the open during the day, but it’s a little different for skunks.

Skunk owners said training a skunk is similar ... Buttons hibernates for most of the winter and sleeps for about 20 hours a day. But in the spring and summer, she's awake 12 to 14 hours each ...