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Researcher Jennifer Hunter says that predators that have experience with skunks stay away from them because of there black and white fur and their distinctive body shape. She wanted to know why predators knew that when they saw a skunk they knew to stay away. To test her findings she took a stuffed skunk and a stuffed gray fox and died them the opposite color. In the places where skunks were common they stayed away from anything skunk shaped. “They wouldn’t go near them,” Hunter said.

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I think that it is cool that predators stayed away from anything that even represented a skunk. Well the ones that have seen a skunk and know what they do and how they act, those are the one that stay away. I would of never thought to have done this kind of test, but i think that its something interesting to learn about.