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Population raises a stink Chicago area Skunk

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This small juvenile skunk was caught by Des Plaines, Ill., homeowner Richard Kaulback. He says there have always been raccoons and opossums in the Chicago area, but this year, skunks have become prolific. Cheryl Corley/NPR

This small juvenile Skunk was caught of des Plaines, Illinois, home owners Richard Kaulbach back. He says it raccoons and opossums in the Chicago area has always given, but this year, skunks have become more productive.

There is a slight stench as Brandon Owen from his truck steps. The biologist is a wildlife technician with ABC humane wildlife control, and his company has 687 skunks captured this year in the northeastern Illinois - about 200 more than in the previous year.

Owen and President of the society, Vito Brancato, are on a Skunk in des Plaines, a suburb near the city of Chicago O'Hare International Airport run.

Brancato, that an animal, they have only a juvenile.

Why stink skunks?

One of the reasons skunks have a bad reputation is because they can really stink. Below, their tails two internal glands produce a thick and oily liquid in particularly smelly compounds.

If the tail is in the air, can a Skunk these chemicals as spray from one or two glands can be up to 20 meters with accuracy for up to 10 meters and with less precision. You can the fluid several times in a matter of seconds release.

The scent is released in self-defense if she feel threatened or provoked. A Skunk is typically a warning that they have their scent by stamping their feet quickly with its tail to build, version, and growl or hiss.

-Tasnim2mountain Shamma, NPR

Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of wildlife ecology Scott Craven

"Very happy, that way we have because we will at least be able to approach the Skunk, probably to spray the slightly less," says Brancato.

This is good news for Brancato as skunks that they use oily substance can spray to defend up to 15 feet - and your goal is good. Find the Skunk in a small cage in homeowner Richard Kaulbach back Green Garden, Brancato, and Owen.

The animal is small. His white stripe is visible, but the head is hidden behind the trap door. Skunks are nocturnal animals - it seems to sleep, and fortunately, of the tail is down.

Kaulbach back has all kinds of wild animals slippers on his farm in the nearly 50 years lived in des Plaines has observed. This was a bad year for skunks was.

"This is an ongoing throughout the summer," says Kaulbach back. "Before we had many raccoons, but this is the first time we have so many skunks had." "This is the second (or third) Skunk what, we have."

Brancato says Skunk population can be great because they have not really natural enemies.

"You know cars, their population, which numbers only of motorways are controlled," he says. "So it pretty well, because they don't really move lot."

Introduced by Warner of Bros.. 1945, the French Skunk Pepe Le Pew to Paris walks on looking for love.

Source: YouTube

It of hard, a real count the number of skunks in the State, says Illinois Department of natural resources wildlife biologist Bob Bluett. But the Department undergoes an estimate include roadkill.

"We have seen a dramatic increase in," says Bluett. He adds that it was a 46 percent increase in the number of skunks from 2009 to 2010.

Licensed by the Department of skunks capture company snared 8,700 from across the country last year most in the Chicago area. No virus outbreak up to reduce their Bluett not sure why the numbers are, but skunks in the Midwest are prone to rabies, and it was more than 25 years.

Nevertheless, Skunk is captured euthanized in Illinois. And because figures are Skunk, there are more opportunities in a pet with a outside cable clutter.

"The first thing we tell them is Fido or Fifi not let inside," says Rebecca Fyffe, of wildlife control policy Institute.

Wash them out with peroxide and baking soda (not tomato juice, as recommends the myths), and make sure that pets have rabies vaccination. Of course, skunks isn't all bad: they love larvae and help to keep down the insect population. And for years they have even their own cartoon mascot, Pepé Le Pew.

But Kaulbach back says there is nothing about a Skunk endearing.

"they really stink," says Kaulbach back. "Sometimes at night it is really bad here."

And which has concluded with the door.

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