stink badger
mydaus latin

I don't got to cho you no stinking badgers.

We doan need no stinking badgers!

Compared with its sister species, the Palawan stink badger is also slightly smaller, with larger teeth and longer fur.

The stink badgers rely almost entirely on this powerful odour for their defence, and are among the few wild animals not eaten by the local farmers.

The stink badgers are smaller still, and the ferret badgers are the smallest of all.

The two existing species are different enough from each other for the Palawan stink badger to be sometimes classified in its own genus, Suillotaxus.

Skunks, together with stink badgers, belong to the skunk family, the "Mephitidae", which is in the order Carnivora.

The list is polyphyletic and the species commonly called badgers do not, if the stink badgers are included, form a valid clade.

Although smaller than true badgers, the Palawan stink badger is one of the larger members of the skunk family, the Mephitidae.

Like skunks, Palawan stink badgers possess anal scent glands that emit a pungent yellowish liquid.

Mydaus javanensis - Indonesian or Sunda stink badger (Teledu)

There are also scattered white hairs across the back and over the forehead, but not the white stripe and head-patch found on the closely related Sunda stink badger.

These include the skunks, the African zoril (striped polecat) and the teledu (stink badger) of Java, which all have dark underparts and white upperparts.

Palawan stink badgers are nocturnal, and feed mainly on invertebrates, such as freshwater crabs and small insects, which they dig out of the ground with their long claws.

Like all stink badgers, the Palawan stink badger was once thought to share a more recent common ancestor with badgers than with skunks.

Palawan stink badgers live on the Philippine island of Palawan, and also on the neighbouring islands of Busuanga and Calauit.

Similarly, the stink badgers had been classified with badgers, but genetic evidence shows they share a more recent common ancestor with skunks, so they are now included in the skunk family.

Stink badgers are named for their resemblance to badgers and for the foul-smelling secretions that they expel from anal glands in self-defense (which is stronger in the Sunda species).

The two stink badgers in the genus Mydaus inhabit Indonesia and the Philippines; while the other members of the family inhabit the Americas, ranging from Canada to central South America.

There are only two extant species - the Palawan stink badger (M. marchei), and the Sunda stink badger or Teledu (M. javanensis).

Other mammals include Leopard, Leopard Cat, Indian Muntjac, Java Mouse-deer, Dhole, Malayan Porcupine, Sunda Stink Badger, and Yellow-throated Marten.

The Palawan stink badger (Mydaus marchei), or pantot, is a carnivoran of the western Phillippines named for its resemblance to badgers, its powerful smell, and the largest island to which it is native, Palawan.

The Asiatic Stink badgers of the genus Mydaus were formerly included within Melinae (and thus Mustelidae), but recent genetic evidence indicates these are actually members of the skunk family, placing them in the taxonomic family Mephitidae.

They live only on western islands of the Malay Archipelago: Sumatra, Java, Borneo and (in the case of the Palawan stink badger) on the Philippine island of Palawan; as well as many other, smaller islands in the region.

The Sunda stink badger (Mydaus javanensis, also called the Javan stink badger, teledu, Malay stink badger and Indonesian stink badger) is a mammal of Southeast Asia.

The two stink badgers in the genus Mydaus inhabit Indonesia and the Philippines; while the other members of the family inhabit the Americas, ranging from Canada to central South America.