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RappNature
Sara and Jim Lawray
Rappnature@yahoo.com
they’re fully grown.
Usually when we see them, skunks are wandering around alone in search of something to eat. They seem oblivious to everything around them, probably because they, don’t see very well, relying on their warning color and stinky reputation to protect them.
This may be why skunks are much like opossums when it comes to road traffic. You know cars are a problem for an animal when the first sentence about them in the field guide is, “Often found dead along highway.” Skunks rarely live more than three years in the wild, and road kill is the primary reason.
Of course it’s hard to avoid hitting them when their movements are so unpredictable. They’re as likely to run directly into the path of a car as not. But we plan to take a little more care now that we know one of them grew up in our front yard.
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