- Skunks are carnivores and are most common to be found, they are also the most wide spread.
- Skunks are usually 24-30 inches from nose to tail, and weigh from 4 to 10 pounds, and make skunks are generally larger.
- The scientific name for skunks is mephitis mehitis and it means noxious gas in Latin.
- There are three very important steps before a skunk sprays you, one they stamp their front feet, two they raise tail with ti pointed down, and last they point their tail straight up and spread it out.
- When skunks are born they are only 1/2 ounce, they have rarely any fur, but they show the black and white coloring, and their eyes and ears are sealed.
4 questions
- Do skunks always spray when they get startled, or are there other things they do?
- Are all skunks born with the ability to spray people with the nasty smell?
- When all baby animals are born are both their eyes and their ears sealed so they are blind and deaf?
- Do all animals have the same patterns in the way they grow up, or close to it, or are they totally different?
3 vocabulary
- Amiable: having or showing pleasant qualities
- Crepe: a light weight fabric or silk
- Haphazardly: at random
2 literary
- "a mother skunk moves her young in the same way that a mother cat transports her kittens" (pg. 137)
- "notice a hungry skunk waddling across our patio, earnestly looking for a tidbit" (pg. 141)
1 overview
- This chapter was about skunks and what they eat, how they breed, where they live, what they look like, and of coarse a little story.
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