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Pungent smell, somehow it’s very disturbing for human, but this is a unique mechanism of self defense by the animals. It can be used for marking the territory and ward off the predators. The foul odor from the animals can be produced from their skin, hair or urine. Here are the animals that using those foul odor to protect themselves.Hold your nose everyone.
1. Stink Bug
stinky animal – Stink Bug
This insect is commonly found in China, Japan, and United States. The stink bugs can produce a foul odor from their abdomen when they are feel threatened or cornered. This self defense mechanism helps them to avoid from their predator such as lizard. They are known as dangerous pests for agriculture. They are serious trouble insect for vegetables and fruits.
<2. Tasmanian Devil
stinky animal -Tasmanian Devil
This picture will make you wondering, what is this animal? This is a Tasmanian Devil. They can only be discovered in Tasmania Island in Australia. They are dog-shaped and coated in black fur and they are also have the loudest sound, and it’s terrifying. That’s why they are famous for Tasmanian Devils. This devil is also producing foul odor when they are threatened or when they are facing the bigger predator.
<3. Earwig
stinky animal – Earwig
These stinky insect can be found in the Australia, Asia, Africa and America. Earwig is a nocturnal insect and they are excellent in hiding under the rocks with their dark color. They produce yellow stinky liquid when threatened by their predator such as toads, beetles and lizard
<4. Lesser Anteater
stinky animal – Lesser Anteater
Their eye vision is quite poor, but have a strong sense of smell and hearing. Like other stinky animals, the lesser anteater releases the unpleasant odor to defend against their natural predators. The lesser anteaters produce the unpleasant odor from the glands under their tail.The lesser anteaters are nocturnal, spending most of their daytime resting on a tree. In addition to behavior of releasing unpleasant odor, the lesser anteaters also have powerful arms to defend against the predators.The lesser anteater is a very stinky animal. In fact, it is 5-7 times stinker than skunk.
<5. Bombardier Beetle
stinky animal – Bombardier Beetle
The special chambers inside the abdomen of bombardier beetles contain two chemicals called hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone.The bombardier beetle can spray the chemical in a number of times on the predators with great accuracy and speed when cornered.When threatened, they spray a foul smelling, hot, noxious chemical.By spraying the noxious chemical bombardier beetles can easily kill small insects.The addition of enzymes heats up the chemical mix to near 100 degree Celsius.The potent chemicals with enzymes and spray it on the intruder.
<6. Wolverine
stinky animal – Wolverine
Although it has the same name as the famous comic character, but this animal is not Gabriel Logan’s pet, if you know what I mean. They looks like a bear but in a small size but they are the biggest type of weasel. Contradictive to the others animals who used their pungent odor as their defense mechanism, wolverine used their smell coming from their behind. Wolverine used their foul odor to mark their territorial area. They can be located in Siberia, Alaska and Northern Canada. They are also known as a “skunk bear” because of their habitual odor.
<7. Skunk
stinky animal – Skunk
They are famous as the smelliest animal. They even created as a cartoon character. This animal is closely related with the striped polecat. They can produced foul odor from their behind. Yes, it’s a skunk everyone. They can squirt their foul spray produced by two glands. Skunks are eating both animal and plant consist of small rodent, snakes, eggs, nuts, berries and fungi. They are also found as a scavenger.The honeybee is their favorite diet also. With their black and white fur, this animal can be easily recognised in the wild. For the first attempt of their self defense mechanism, they will growl to their predators to scared them away, if not, they will produce the horrible smell from their behind. Their smelly fluid is not dangerous, but the worst thing about it is they can last for a long period of time. You didn’t want to get these fluid didn’t you?
stinky animal – Stink Bird
I keep thinking about the animal in cartoons that have a foul bad Odor behind ….the word that I keep saying is squirt huhhhhhh and I found it in here and it’s SKUNK
I once encountered skunks. It was n’t a great experience.