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I already presented the genra of skuncat but i had to do a specific art for this awesome little predators.
Those descendants of skunk are very fast predators wich occupy the niche of modern wild cats, but their liquid spray is 20x more smelly than skunk's terrible defense, it's now considered as a poison because their spray can damage soft tissues, and kill small animals.

A poisonous mammal is quite rare, but the most incredible is how this skuncat hunts with their poison, they run after their prey, overtake them, and then delivers a huge spray on the poor little prey to kill them by destroying their tissues...
Their drool allows them to neutralize the corrosive effect of their poison during the digestion

So yeah, they look cute but they are ruthless predators... like our domestic cat !

The specie shown on this picture is the purple skuncat.

Scientific Name: Spilofelia alba (striped skunk cat)
Length: 3 feet (1m)
Height: 1-2 feet (50cm)
Weight: 20kg (44 lbs)
Ancestor: skunk (Spilogale)
Range: Siberia

Description
I already presented the genra of skuncat but i had to do a specific art for this awesome little predators.
Those descendants of skunk are very fast predators wich occupy the niche of modern wild cats, but their liquid spray is 20x more smelly than skunk's terrible defense, it's now considered as a poison because their spray can damage soft tissues, and kill small animals.

A poisonous mammal is quite rare, but the most incredible is how this skuncat hunts with their poison, they run after their prey, overtake them, and then delivers a huge spray on the poor little prey to kill them by destroying their tissues...
Their drool allows them to neutralize the corrosive effect of their poison during the digestion

So yeah, they look cute but they are ruthless predators... like our domestic cat !

The specie shown on this picture is the purple skuncat.

Scientific Name: Spilofelia alba (striped skunk cat)
Length: 3 feet (1m)
Height: 1-2 feet (50cm)
Weight: 20kg (44 lbs)
Ancestor: skunk (Spilogale)
Range: Siberia