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For most of the year the normal home range for skunks is 0.5 to 2 miles (1 to 3 km) in diameter, with males expanding during breeding season to travel 4 to 5 miles (6 to 8 km) per night. [8] Skunks are not true hibernators in the winter, but do den up for extended periods of time.
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Members of the Musteloidea family of carnivorans, including weasels, ferrets, minks, otters, martens, skunks, raccoons, red pandas, and badgers, often appear in works of fiction as named characters. Some may be anthropomorphic while others may be depicted as more realistic animals.
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The spotted skunks are the most similar to the weasels of the skunks. It has a slimmer body, and tail coat thinner and smaller than their close relatives. It reaches a length of 115–345 mm with a tail of 70–120 mm. Its coat has a black background with white spots on the forehead and characteristics of 2-6 white stripes on the back and flanks.
These baby skunks are called kits. [5] At birth, the young are blind and almost hairless, weighing around 11 g (0.39 oz). [16] At around 4 or 5 months of age, young females become sexually mature and the cycle starts again. [5] Western spotted skunks have lived for almost ten years in captivity. [17]
[4] [8] Hooded skunks in Costa Rica utilize their forelimbs to throw bird eggs between their hindlegs, in order to break the eggs open. [8] In the wild, their stomach contents include 74.3% insects, with 50% of their diet consisting of earwigs , stink bugs , and beetles .
Striped skunks weigh between 200g–6 kg (7 ounces–14 pounds) and have an average lifespan of 3 years. They are easily adaptable animals that live in forests , woodlands and grasslands . These mesocarnivores can be easily recognized by their black fur with a thin white stripe from their nose to their forehead.