Areas with rodent infestations such as sheds or food storage buildings have a very distinctive and unpleasant musty smell. Can be confused with: The smell of ship rats may be confused with the smell of other rodent species, including mice. It is difficult to distinguish what species is present by smell alone.
Possums have multiple scent glands including a red-brown gland on the chest between the front legs sternal , near their bottoms and in the pouch region. They commonly rub these glands on the bases of tree trunks, or mix the scent with urine or droppings, to mark territory.
They can release different scents when scared or handled, and will often release urine or droppings too. The sternal gland on the chest has a sweetish musky odour. One pair of anal bottom glands contain a white substance with a penetrating acid smell rather like pickled onions. A second pair of anal glands secrete cells suspended in a clear viscid fluid, but have no distinctive odour.
The male wallaby has scent glands on its chest. However, no information could be found on what they smell like. A pungent smell is produced from the subcaudal glands of alarmed or rutting males. Bull tahrs have scent glands under the tail that give off a strong musky smell, especially in the breeding season May to July in New Zealand.
The urine of bulls is also pungent during this time. Recently used sika deer wallows can have a strong musky smell, because stags urinate and defecate in them. Wait, what does laziness have to do with being smelly?
Well, the sloth is so lazy that it actually has algae and mold growing on its fur. A single animal can be home to sloth beetles and more than moths, according to National Geographic. As you might have guessed, the bombardier beetle gets its name from the mixture of chemicals it can fire from its rear. Whenever it feels threatened, the Beetle heats up and then releases hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide, mixing it with enzymes.
The end result is a boiling, stinky liquid which can deter even the harshest predator. As legend has it, Darwin experienced this stink first hand when he put one of these beetles in his mouth yikes so he could free up a hand to write something down. But solitary as they are, they have a reputation for ferocity and strength out of proportion to their size, with the documented ability to kill prey many times larger than themselves.
They also have anal glands which secrete substances used to mark their territory. Andrei's background is in geophysics, and he's been fascinated by it ever since he was a child.
These large owls lack a sense of smell. Owls can easily see their characteristic black and white stripes, which skunks use as nocturnal warning coloration. This strong chemical can temporally blind, disorient, and make life miserable for human or owl alike.
Luckily, rabid skunks can easily be avoided by walking away from the slow-moving critter. Skunks out during the day, stumbling, covered in ticks, poorly groomed, and frothing at the mouth are the strongest indications to avoid them at all costs. Call a conservation officer or animal control personnel if you notice this behavior. Despite the seriousness of the rabies, skunks are typically harmless and non-aggressive.
The common cure is tomato juice, which for a time may mask the smell. Some reports indicate that this secretion can be smelled up to half a mile away! The Lesser Anteater is regarded as one of the most foul-smelling creatures in the animal kingdom.
Their pungent odour is about 4 to 7 times stronger than that of the skunk. It is possible to smell the lesser anteater up to 50 metres away! Now found in the wild only on the Australian island state of Tasmania, these creatures can give off a very powerful odour when under stress, this helps them to protect their environment, but when calm and relaxed they are not smelly at all. It is only produced by the males and is used to mark their territory during mating season.
When marking their territory, a lot of the urine gets matted into the hair around their underbelly, giving them their distinctive smell — bleurgh! They get their name from the unpleasant odor of the chemical they produce in glands on their abdomen when they are threatened. Some species can actually spray the chemical several inches!
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