Skunk vs. Bear!

Here's Jazz playing with a stuffed bear. Jazz is a 6-year-old skunk at the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary in Green Bay, WI. She is one of the program animals / Animal Ambassadors, which help educate the general public about wildlife and how to respect it. Jazz was originally found orphaned as a baby, and she was descented (scent gland that creates the well-known skunk smell) when she became a permanent resident of the Wildlife Sanctuary.

Skunks generally have poor eyesight; they rely on their sense of smell mostly, which is why their noses are always to the ground! If you come across one in the wild and don't want to risk getting sprayed, move very slowly and quietly away--they won't even realize you were there! Skunks belong to the weasle family, and are cousins of raccoons, otters, badgers, mink, oppposums, and ferrets.

Please remember the skunk in this video is still a wild animal, and is only as docile as she is because she became habituated to humans at a very young age. Most people have common sense enough not to approach a skunk in the wild, but for those who may not, be warned they can become aggressive out of defense--along with smelly!

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Pets & Animals

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• teddy
• bear
• fight
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• wildlife
• sanctuary
• wild
• animal
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• white
• descent
• smelly
• program
• ambassador

[fmoua12]

@drm6484

oh sorry i didn't know

[drm6484]

@fmoua12 This skunk is an animal ambassador for the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary. She's one of the program animals, not a pet. She doesn't spray; she's been descented, which they do at the same time they fix them--they do the same exact thing with ferrets.

[fmoua12]

awww soo cute! i never knew tat u could keep skunks! but don't they spray a lot?