This Sunda stink badger—one of 20 carnivores recorded via camera trap during the Deramakot forest study—is an animal to avoid: Like its close relative the skunk, the stink badger squirts an odoriferous liquid from its hindquarters when threatened.
Photograph courtesy Andreas Wilting
"It can smell very, very bad," study leader Wilting said.
Although not a threatened species, the stink badger "has a patchy distribution, but we haven't really figured out why yet," Wilting added. Future conservation plans for the Sunda stink badger and other mammals in the study will be the focus of the first Borneo Carnivore Symposium, due to take place in Malaysia next June.
Although not a threatened species, the stink badger "has a patchy distribution, but we haven't really figured out why yet," Wilting added. Future conservation plans for the Sunda stink badger and other mammals in the study will be the focus of the first Borneo Carnivore Symposium, due to take place in Malaysia next June.
Source : National Geographic Daily News
Published July 26, 2010
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