Some members of Team Skunk decorate "road kill" skunks with Mardi Gras-style beaded necklaces.

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Bats are one of the most common animals that transmit rabies in the United States, along with raccoons, skunks, foxes and coyotes.

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' The answer of course, was: 'Because of the policies your government is pursuing, so you are going to remain the skunks of the world.

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When skunks learn that they cannot taint the messenger and, in so doing, thwart his campaign to articulate the truth, they have no choice but to flee.

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Skunks : Often when attempting to confront insecure people with the truth, they spray you with a stink that is as, if not more potent, than the one expelled by a skunk.

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