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The earliest fossil finds attributable to Mephitis were found in the Broadwater site in Nebraska, dating back to the early Pleistocene less than 1.8 million years ago. By the late Pleistocene (70,000–14,500 years ago), the striped skunk was widely distributed throughout the southern United States, and it expanded northwards and westwards by the Holocene (10,000–4,500 years ago) following ...
A tame striped skunk. Mephitis mephitis, the striped skunk, is the most social skunk and the one most commonly kept as a pet. In the US, skunks can legally be kept as pets in 17 states. [41] When a skunk is kept as a pet, its scent glands are often surgically removed.
Most mephitids are 20–50 cm (8–20 in) long, plus a 10–40 cm (4–16 in) tail, though the pygmy spotted skunk can be as small as 11 cm (4 in) plus a 7 cm (3 in) tail, and some striped skunks can be up to 82 cm (32 in) plus a 40 cm (16 in) tail.
They have black fur with wide white stripes running down their backs, and a thin white stripe on their faces. Striped skunks are the biggest kind of skunk and can weigh up to 14 pounds. Spotted skunks
The striped polecat (Ictonyx striatus), also called the African polecat, zoril, zorille, zorilla, Cape polecat, and African skunk, is a member of the family Mustelidae that resembles a skunk (of the family Mephitidae). [3] The name "zorilla" comes from the Spanish word "zorillo", meaning "skunk", itself a diminutive form of the Spanish "zorro ...
Striped polecat, I. striatus, (native to Central, Southern, and sub-Saharan Africa) Saharan striped polecat, I. libycus (Sahara) Genus Vormela. Marbled polecat, V. peregusna (Southeastern Europe to western China) Subfamily Mustelinae. Genus Mustela. Steppe polecat, M. eversmannii (Central and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia)
The striped hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus semistriatus) is a skunk species from Central and South America (from southern Mexico [3] [4] to northern Peru, and in the extreme east of Brazil). This species of skunk is considered a generalist species, because they are able to thrive in, and withstand, disturbed environmental conditions.
Striped skunk: Southern Canada, the United States and northern Mexico Mephitis macroura: Hooded skunk: Southwestern United States to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras ...