Interspecific Interactions
When a skunk senses danger, it will warn its predator by stamping its front feet and hissing or growling. Red foxes, striped skunks, and minks use burrows dug by other species. Coyotes and badgers occasionally prey on striped skunks, and there is evidence of mutual albeit sometimes fatal attraction between coyotes and badgers. However, there is no found relation between track indices of coyotes and striped skunks, badgers and striped skunks, and coyotes and badgers.
Correlations between occurrence of tracks (% of searched quarter sections with
tracks) of pairs of mammalian carnivore
species in study areas in the prairie pothole region, 1983-88b
tracks) of pairs of mammalian carnivore
species in study areas in the prairie pothole region, 1983-88b