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UN CONQUISTADOR MALODORANT

Here’s a little-known wildlife fact: skunks’ posterior glands contain enough spray for only a handful of predator-disarming strikes, and once they use it up it can take 10 days to produce more. Hence, before releasing that jet of sulphurous thiols, the beast will usually make like a glass-wielding thug in a bar fight, attempting to deter its predator by hissing, stomping its feet

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