10 on a prank - Skunkbabies in the animal park Berlin

Berlin, GERMANY, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:18 GMT
On the 4th May, 2010 10 skunk children were born in the animal park Berlin for the first time. The parents„ Wolfgang“ and„ Hannelore“ came on the 25th November 2009 to the animal park that they were found in the animal park to quite fast acclimatized and fallen each other, is to be seen in the rich child blessing. A ten throw is quite rare, and„ Hannelore“ looks after him caring. The momentary weight of the younger generation already amounts to 320 to 400 gs. As an arising they reach normally a weight from 2-3 kg, with too good care also the double.

Zoological the skunks belong to the family of the martens. Typically for the subfamily of the skunks it are on both sides of the anus situated Stinkdrüsen. With threat the skunks to the attacker stretch her back against, sometimes even in the hand stand and empty with muscle pressure her Stinkdrüsen, and up to 4 ms away. The smell of the secretion is heavy to describe! Who has smelled him, nevertheless, once, will forget him him barely again. Streifenskunks settle half-open area as a loner, existed with shrubbery or bright wood, up to Prärien. The spreading reaches in North America of Canada to Mexico.