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Skunk Breeding Season Stinks

J. Froelich
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KUAF
Kimberly Smith stops by a boulder in Mount Sequoyah Woods to talk skunks.

If you step outside your front door and catch a whiff of skunk, it could mean love is in the air. We meet Dr. Kimberly Smith, a Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Arkansas, on Mt. Sequoyah to discuss the intense mating behaviors of common striped skunks. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is conducting a citizen-scientist survey on the presence of increasingly rare spotted skunks in Arkansas.

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.