Originally posted by gini
Poor Pauline...

She will be inundated with more information than she ever wanted to know about skunks and their close relatives.
Da *plot* thickens...

Well, we're ALL sorta right!

According to THIS site >>
Encyclopedia.com ~ Polecat

The Polecat AND the Shunk are BOTH related to the Weasel...

" The Skunk, a New World member of the Weasel family,
is called polecat in some regions.
Polecats are classified in the phylum Chordata ,
subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia,
order Carnivora, family Mustelidae."

QUIZZ at da end of da Class!

"And Skunks ARE called "Polecats" in some areas..."

I alluz KNEW there was a *reason* I didn't ever take Biology!