| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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