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Researcher finds much to learn about skunks A skunk ambling across a yard or along a dark Vineyard roadway or beach is a common sight. But while most Islanders and visitors are familiar with the skunk's unmistakable odor, most people know little about how the animal lives. New England. She has been tracking skunks since 2004 to get information on their behavior and population patterns. One goal of her research is to determine the impact coastal skunks have on nesting threatened or endangered shorebirds, including piping plovers, least terns and American oystercatchers. she selected coastal skunk ecology as the subject Because there was little or no research on skunks in coastal habitats she expected that there would be interest in the subject that extended beyond her own. When she finds a trapped skunk, Asked about the Island's skunk population, she pauses to do calculations in her head. She estimates that there are between one and three thousand skunks Once skunks are trapped and released, Countless hours of tracking and monitoring have provided a glimpse into the secret lives of skunks. even though skunks are most often seen ambling along, they can travel quite a distance, covering up to two miles in a given night. To emphasize that point, she told of one skunk trapped When she found the same skunk in a trap a week later, she took the opportunity to learn more . "I let her out of the trap, and I followed her home," she said. "I thought, 'okay, she's going to take me wherever she lives.' And she took me almost two miles down the beach. One- point-seven miles we traveled to where her den was." Since she was nursing kits, young skunks, she returned to the same den each night. Skunks without kits, however, sleep in different spots each night during the summer, making their homes underneath shrubs, old boats and decks. "They're moving around a lot, and a lot of places kind of function as little skunk motels where skunks will come and go," When winter arrives skunks settle down in ground dens, which are chambers six feet underground that house a male and as many as 11 females. Even though there haven't been many studies done on the social aspects of winter denning, While it may appear that the Vineyard has a surplus of skunks compared with mainland communities, "I don't think we have more skunks, but we have lots of resources," she said. skunks on the beach at night will abandon their usual diet of insects and small rodents to feast on scraps of food left behind by careless beachgoers. She said that the best way for homeowners to avoid a seasonal skunk problem is to reduce available resources by securing garbage cans, not leaving trash on the beach and raking underneath piles of wood and house decks. It's especially important to not leave food behind on the beach. The skunks will wander onto the beach looking for human food and eat that along with the eggs of nesting shorebirds that people are trying so hard to protect. Skunks are natural predators and affect the number of birds by stealing eggs. "They don't seem to go out and hunt them methodically. They're just ambling down the beach, and they bump into them and then they'll eat whatever's in front of them," the skunk that has stunk up her home. About three days ago, the critter managed to climb into a wall of the mobile home she rents at a park off Post Road and it’s just about enough to make her climb the walls as well. lives in the home with her three small children and while the odor “comes and goes,” the fear the animal could have a disease and come in direct contact with any one of them doesn’t. they don’t deal with wild animals.” When someone finally suggested putting out moth balls to drive the skunk away she even tried that. “I guess the skunk doesn’t like the smell,” she had thought, apparently wrongly. “Now it smells like a combination of skunk and mothballs.” “I remember seeing on TV about a pest control company. 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