A genus of badger like skunks.

Conepatus

A genus of badger like skunks.

A genus of quadrupeds of the weasel family, which are native to North America. They are about the size of a large cat.

Skunk

A genus of quadrupeds of the weasel family, which are native to North America. They are about the size…

Medium-sized mammals with black-and-white-fur belonging to the family Mephitidae and the order Carnivora.

Common Skunk

Medium-sized mammals with black-and-white-fur belonging to the family Mephitidae and the order Carnivora.

"A fetid animal of the American genus <i>Mephitis, M. mephitica</i>... The animal inhabits all of temperate North America, and continues abundant in the most thickly settled regions. It is about as large as a house-cat, but stouter-bodied, with shorter limbs, and very long bushy tail, habitually erected or turned over the back. The color is black or blackish, conspicuously but to a variable extent set off with pure white- generally as a frontal stripe, a large crown-spot, a pair of broad divergent bands along the side of the back, and white hairs mixed with the black ones of the tail." &mdash;Whitney, 1889

Common Skunk

"A fetid animal of the American genus Mephitis, M. mephitica... The animal inhabits all of temperate…

"Of this genus there is but a single species, found at the Cape of Good Hope and Senegal, and variously denominated by different authors." &mdash; S. G. Goodrich, 1885

Zorilla

"Of this genus there is but a single species, found at the Cape of Good Hope and Senegal, and variously…