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Skunks Striped skunks Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Superfamily: Musteloidea Family: Mephitidae Groups included Conepatus Mephitis Spilogale † Brachyprotoma Skunk genera ranges Cladistically included but traditionally excluded taxa Mydaus † Palaeomephitis † Promephitis Skunks are mammals in the family ...
Mephitidae is a family of mammals comprising the skunks and stink badgers.They are noted for the great development of their anal scent glands, which they use to deter predators.
Many prey animals, and to defend against seed predation also seeds of plants, [55] make use of poisonous chemicals for self-defence. [51] [56] These may be concentrated in surface structures such as spines or glands, giving an attacker a taste of the chemicals before it actually bites or swallows the prey animal: many toxins are bitter-tasting ...
Stink badgers are named for their resemblance to other badgers and for the foul-smelling secretions that they expel from anal glands in self-defense (which is stronger in the Sunda species). [ 4 ]
Aposematism is the advertising by an animal, whether terrestrial or marine, to potential predators that it is not worth attacking or eating. [1] This unprofitability may consist of any defenses which make the prey difficult to kill and eat, such as toxicity, venom , foul taste or smell, sharp spines, or aggressive nature.
Most projectiles used by terrestrial animals are liquids. Among invertebrates there are a number of examples. Velvet worms can squirt out a slimy adhesive fluid from glands on the sides of their head, and use it to trap their prey. The spitting spiders Scytodes can spit a venomous sticky fluid that traps its victims and also poisons them. [1]
The related pacas were formerly included in genus Agouti, but these animals were reclassified in 1998 as genus Cuniculus. [3] The Spanish term is agutí. In Mexico, the agouti is called the sereque. [4] In Panama, it is known as the ñeque [5] and in eastern Ecuador, as the guatusa. [6] Red-rumped agouti (Dasyprocta leporina)
The name Spilogale comes from the Greek word spilo, which means "spotted", and gale, which means "weasel". Putorius is the Latin word for "fetid odor". Gracilis is the Latin word for "slender".