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2/2: #NATURE: Why do skunks change their stripes? Ted Stankowich, Department of Biological Sciences at California State University, Long Beach.

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🗓️ 9 December 2023

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2/2: #NATURE: Why do skunks change their stripes? Ted Stankowich, Department of Biological Sciences at California State University, Long Beach.
https://www.csulb.edu/media/page/ted-stankowich

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com pricing shown. This is a CBSI on the world. I'm John Bachelor with Professor Theodore Ted Stankowich of the Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, whose study with his colleagues

0:46.0

includes revelations about the skunk, mefidus, mefidus.

0:50.0

Now I have fun to give an unlimited budget to the professor and his colleagues now that they've

0:56.0

studied this revelation about skunks where there are lots of predators, the stripes are bold

1:02.3

telling stay away except for the owl except for the

1:04.8

great winged toward owl where they're not predators I suppose they are very casual

1:09.4

about it how do the skunks know to convey this to mom?

1:14.4

It strikes me as a mystery of evolution, but you've got an unlimited budget, professor.

1:18.7

What do you want next to study?

1:21.6

Well, in my lab, we're really interested in the evolution of defenses as a whole, defenses against

1:26.8

predators, so noctuous sprays, body armor, spines, quills, those types of things and in mammals.

1:33.2

And what we're really interested in is,

1:35.8

when animals like skunks have a defense like this,

1:38.9

do they perceive fear the same way

1:41.1

as animals that don't have a defense? Are they as fearful of predators in their environment?

1:45.4

Do they walk around more boldly and more confidently because they know they can back up and turn back most predators.

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