adult striped skunk | becomes very fat in the fall to prepare for hibernation | |
builds nest of dried grasses and leaves | |
can run at 14.5 km an hour | |
eats fruit, small mammals, insects, grasses. leaves and buds, carrion, grains and nuts, eggs, baby birds, crayfish, minnows, mollusks, frogs, lizards and snakes | |
has breeding season late February and early March | |
has colour black with white stripes down the back and tail | |
has range 4 hectares | |
has temperament placid and sluggish | |
has part long claws used for digging | |
has part pair of musk sacs | |
is nocturnal | |
is omnivorous | |
is a kind of striped skunk | |
makes sound hisses, growls, squeals, soft cooings | |
moults in the spring and fall | |
sprays when in danger | |
striped skunk | has distribution most of southern Canada | |
has habitat agricultural land, forest, along river valleys | |
has name in French mouffette rayée | |
has picture | |
has population density 5.2 per square km of agricultural land | |
has scientific name Mephitis mephitis | |
hibernates from December to March | |
is eaten by great horned owl, bobcat, coyote, fisher | |
lives in burrow of groundhog or cottontail rabbit | |
spends the winter with up to 12 other skunks in a den mostly females with young | |
weasel | has Family name Family Mustelidae | |
carnivore | has Order name Order Carnivora | |
is carnivorous or omnivorous | |
mammal | is warm-blooded | |
may catch rabies | |