adult striped skunk | late February and early March | up to 12 other skunks in a den mostly females with young | 5.2 per square km of agricultural land | when in danger | dried grasses and leaves | the fall to prepare for hibernation | Order Carnivora | hisses, growls, squeals, soft cooings | striped skunk | burrow of groundhog or cottontail rabbit | most of southern Canada | Mephitis mephitis | | | fruit, small mammals, insects, grasses. leaves and buds, carrion, grains and nuts, eggs, baby birds, crayfish, minnows, mollusks, frogs, lizards and snakes | | from December to March | mouffette rayée | pair of musk sacs | placid and sluggish | 4 hectares | black with white stripes down the back and tail | in the spring and fall |  | 14.5 km an hour | agricultural land, forest, along river valleys | great horned owl, bobcat, coyote, fisher | Family Mustelidae |
adult male striped skunk | late February and early March | up to 12 other skunks in a den mostly females with young | 5.2 per square km of agricultural land | when in danger | dried grasses and leaves | the fall to prepare for hibernation | Order Carnivora | hisses, growls, squeals, soft cooings | male mammal | burrow of groundhog or cottontail rabbit | most of southern Canada | Mephitis mephitis | 1.27-2.44 kg | | fruit, small mammals, insects, grasses. leaves and buds, carrion, grains and nuts, eggs, baby birds, crayfish, minnows, mollusks, frogs, lizards and snakes | 522-610 mm | from December to March | mouffette rayée | | placid and sluggish | 4 hectares | black with white stripes down the back and tail | in the spring and fall |  | 14.5 km an hour | agricultural land, forest, along river valleys | great horned owl, bobcat, coyote, fisher | Family Mustelidae |