Skunks are more well known to most Canadians by reputation than first-hand experience. The animal’s best known feature is, of course, its ability to discharge twin streams of musky fluid from the anal orifice. It does this with uncanny accuracy when it feels threatened.
Skunks are primarily nocturnal and have few natural enemies, the chief being the great horned owl. Other carnivores avoid them unless desperate for food.
There is a popular notion that skunks cannot eject their musk if they are lifted off the ground by the tail. This is untrue.

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