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- Title
Food Provisioning of Kits by a Female Eastern Spotted Skunk.
- Authors
Sprayberry, Tyler R.; Edelman, Andrew J.
- Abstract
Spilogale putorius (Eastern Spotted Skunk) is an elusive species, and little is known about their natural history in the southeastern US. We used a game camera to observe a female Eastern Spotted Skunk in the southern Appalachians of Alabama carrying 6 different prey items to her den from February to August 2015. Half of the observations occurred while she had 2 dependent kits, suggesting she was provisioning them with food. Identified food items included 3 snakes, a small mammal, a fungal sporocarp, and an anuran.
- Subjects
SPOTTED skunks; EASTERN spotted skunk; NATURAL history; PREDATION; FOOD supply
- Publication
Southeastern Naturalist, 2016, Vol 15, Issue 4, pN53
- ISSN
1528-7092
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1656/058.015.0417