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Great Wooded South's National Skunk Month

Sight and smell of skunks is obvious during February mating season

By Billy Joe Fudge, Retired District Forester
Kentucky Division of Forestry

For those who have not received the notice February is National Skunk Month in the Great Wooded South. Increased skunk activity is now becoming obvious by both smell and sight on our highways.

Skunks are nocturnal but have very poor eyesight and are more active at twilight, dawn, and on moonlit nights. Animals such as skunks with this kind of eyesight are considered to be, crepuscular.

Crepuscular animals are very likely to end up as "road kill" but this likelihood is greatly increased because of their Mardi Grasian, dancing in the street activity, during the skunk mating month of February. -Billy Joe Fudge




This story was posted on 2011-02-06 03:28:30
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