Great horned owls eat skunks

Owls have superb hearing and eyesight but a weak sense of smell. For a great horned owl, that's a feature, not a bug: a skunk's spray barely slows it down, and skunks are a regular part of its diet.

That's a big meal. A great horned owl weighs about 3 pounds, and a striped skunk can weigh roughly twice that.

Attacking silently from above helps too, since a skunk's defenses are built for predators on the ground.

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