Not exact matches
The Village
of Vernon Hills and the Vernon Hills Park District are partnering with homeowners to reduce the overall
Skunk population within the Village.
Once again we get an animal
population where all the species work together instead
of eating each other, and there is even the possibility
of interspecies sex, when a human's house cat falls in love with Stella the
skunk (Wanda Sykes).
The current drought as well as the increase in
skunk population is considered to be two very influencing factors in the rise
of rabies cases being seen in the community.
Distemper affects other animals as well; raccoons, coyotes, wolves, foxes, ferrets,
skunks, weasels, mink, badgers, hyenas, and jackals can also catch the disease and a
population of lions in Africa has been decimated by it.
Fresno's
population of wild animals within its borders includes foxes, raccoons, opossums, squirrels, rats,
skunks, coyotes, snakes, pigeons, and geese to name a few.
Skunk populations have more recently shown a remarkable recovery, and as
of 2011 approximately 3,000
skunks were marked and counted during
population monitoring.
Expansion
of skunk foraging to sea caves is likely a result
of their substantial
population increase following decline
of foxes.
The genetic variation between mainland
skunks and those on the islands are enough to cause researchers to propose that the taxonomic classification
of the
skunks as S. g. amphiala, should be reconsidered and that each island
population be considered a separate subspecies or even a new species separate from the mainland one.
On Santa Rosa Island,
skunks are marked and counted during annual
population monitoring for island foxes, and as
of 2011 there were approximately 3,000
skunks on Santa Rosa Island.
The
skunk is only currently found on two islands off the southern coast
of California (Santa Cruz Island, and Santa Rosa Island, where its occurrence was once thought to be rare but recently experienced a
population surge in the 1990s).
Skunks on Santa Cruz Island may be nearing or even exceeding carrying capacity, and the future
of the
population and its effects on the endangered island fox remain unclear.
For spotted
skunks we found levels
of genetic differentiation between the 2 island
populations that were roughly equivalent to that between island and mainland localities, suggesting that island
populations have been isolated from each other for about as long as they have been isolated from the mainland.
Results from our comparisons
of genetic diversity in island and mainland spotted
skunk populations correspond with results from studies
of island and mainland
populations of foxes (Aguilar et al. 2004; Wayne et al. 1991) and deer mice (Ashley and Wills 1987; Gill 1980).
This uncertainty, coupled with an insular distribution and genetic distinctness, warrants heightened vigilance for both
populations of island spotted
skunks.
We used 8 microsatellite loci to investigate the distribution
of genetic variation within and among
populations of spotted
skunks from 8 localities (the 2 islands and 6 mainland localities), representing 4 subspecies.
Another indication
of a heavy grub
population is birds,
skunks, armadillos and other animals — depending on the part
of country they're in — feeding on grubs in the lawn.