Skunk Suicide Month

Today, on my drive along the presidential corridor, I saw an amazing amount of skunks. There was one every few miles. The had all expired already though and it made for a particularly unpleasant smelling trip.

After this I was not surprised to discover that the skunk is a very short lived animal and only around 10% survive past three years. This is partly due to the fact that they cannot see very well past 3 metres and because people like to run them over, shoot or poison them. Apparently it is breeding season at the moment so maybe the ones I saw were all the post-coital lethargic males. If that is the case, at least they died happy.