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Very common species yet very little on Wikicommons. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Outriggr ( talk • contribs) 05:38, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
- I just added a few images that were recently uploaded to the Commons. -Panser Born- (talk) 21:03, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
I found a site that records their mating habits:
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Mephitis_mephitis.html
It states on the above named site site:
Mephitis mephitis striped skunk
Reproduction Breeding season February and March
Number of offspring
2 to 12
Jerry Cui 200713 (
talk) 03:17, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
Gestation period
77 days (high)
Birth Mass
33.50 g (average)
(1.18 oz)
[External Source: AnAge]
Time to weaning
2 months (average)
Age at sexual or reproductive maturity (female)
10 months (average)
Age at sexual or reproductive maturity (male)
10 months (average)
Males are typically polygamous and solitary. Males and females do not associate beyond the few days required for fertilization.
Mating systems: polygynous .
Females are monestrous, but they occasionally can have a second estrous if the first pregnancy is unsuccessful. Mating takes place from mid-February until mid-March. The gestation period is between 60 and 77 days, with delayed implantation probably involved. Usually, five or six young are born in each litter. At birth, baby striped skunks are blind, deaf, and extremely immature. They nurse for about a month and a half in the mother's den. Fully weaned, the young then follow the mother about, finally breaking from the family about a year after reaching adult size.
Key reproductive features: iteroparous ; seasonal breeding ; gonochoric/gonochoristic/dioecious (sexes separate); sexual ; fertilization ; viviparous ; delayed implantation .
Female striped skunks nurture their young inside their bodies before they are born and then provide them with milk afterward. Male skunks provide no parental care. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasmineskunk ( talk • contribs) 17:38, 13 March 2009 (UTC) hi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.186.31.74 ( talk) 23:27, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
The sidebar shows the striped skunk's binomial name as Mephitis mephitis. Why, in the Classification section, are the 13 subspecies names preceded by "S. g." instead of "M. m."? Sambo of New Albany ( talk) 00:02, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
- A very good catch. I'm not sure where that comes from as the Reference cited for that does not use the S. g. but rather M. m. I'll change it. Kirkmona ( talk) 15:11, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
I haven't used WIkipedia in a long time, so I am not sure whetehr "In Pop Culture" sections are encouraged or discouraged. I'll let whoever is the official guardsman of this article decide. But, if they just so happen to be in favor, you could mention the Warner Brothers cartoon characters Pepe Le Peu and Fifi Le Fume as striped skunks in popular culture. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.29.5 ( talk) 00:55, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
This article claims the Native American word for skunk is also the origin of the city Chicago's name, however the Chicago article claims it is named after wild garlic. Which is correct? 89.99.78.55 ( talk) 16:33, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
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