The Chemistry of Skunk Spray

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How do you get rid of skunk odor? Don’t use tomato juice… Use chemistry!
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Recipe for De-Skunking Spray:
http://users.humboldt.edu/wfwood/deodorize.shtml

Chemicals in Striped Skunk Spray:
http://users.humboldt.edu/wfwood/skunkspray.shtml

Host, Producer, Editor
Anna Rothschild

Researcher, Writer
Eliza Lehner

Camera, Sound
Gil Kaplan

Many thanks to Drs. William F. Wood and Stanley D. Gehrt

Comme Un Pigeon
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FOOTAGE AND IMAGES

Footage of Skunk Spraying
Courtesy WNET
NATURE “Is That Skunk?”

Stinktier, Skunks, Mephitis mephitis, Striped Skunks, Minnesota, USA, cub
Shutterstock/Bildagentur Zoonar GmbH

Blue Merle Australian Shepherd puppy, 10 weeks old, looking at Striped Skunk, Mephitis Mephitis, 5 years old, sitting in front of white background
Shutterstock/Eric Isselee

Pepe Le Pew Gif
Giphy/Warner Brothers

Baby skunk
Wikimedia Commons/AnimalPhotos

Juvenile Spotted Skunk
Flickr/vladeb

American hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus leauconotus)
Flickr/Saguaro National Park

Striped Skunk
Flickr/Land Between the Lakes …

Striped Skunk (cropped)
Wikimedia Commons/ http://www.birdphotos.com

Striped Skunk
Wikimedia Commons/ http://www.birdphotos.com

Washing a dog in a bath tub
Wikimedia Commons/Andrew Vargas

Mephitis
Flickr/Jon Nelson

Spotted Skunk and Cocomistle
Flickr/Ryan Somma

Tomato juice 316744
Wikimedia Commons/PublicDomainPictures-14

Skunk being cuddled
Wikimedia Commons/Gary J. Wood

PET SKUNK
Wikimedia Commons/Paul M. Walsh

Lapskunk
Wikimedia Commons/octobop

Baby Striped Skunk
Flickr/Land Between the Lakes …

SFX

Cockroaches
Freesound/StateAardvark­
(used with permission from author)

Squeak Pack/squeak_10
Freesound/Corsica_S

Wink
Freesound/Wink

Swishes
Freesound/Pogotron

Pencil
Freesound/faston

Sniff
Freesound/jrssandoval

Bad Beep Incorrect
Freesound/richerlandtv

Poof of Smoke
Freesound/planman

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