The striped skunk is stout-bodied with short legs and a long, bushy, coarsely-furred tail. The head is broad at the base with short, tapered muzzle and short, rounded ears. The eyes are small and ...

The Hattiesburg Zoo welcomed two new residents this month. A skunk named Koni and a Kinkajou named Lulo are the zoo’s newest ...

That basically means the skunks are rapidly declining--habitat loss, disease, pesticides and rodenticide use, and declining forest habitat have led to numbers plummeting over the past 80 years.