Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
TABLE 1: Distribution by age classa and sex of striped skunks captured in March-July in east central North Dakota and west central Minnesota during 1979 through 1990b and Stutsman County, North Dakota during 1991 and 1992.
| Year | Sex | Number | Age class | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |||
| 1979-1990 | Male | 208 | 155 | 75 | 41 | 20 | 12 | 6 |
| Female | 155 | 115 | 74 | 22 | 14 | 18 | 12 | |
| Total | 363 | 270 | 74 | 63 | 17 | 30 | 8 | |
| 1991 | Male | 13 | 10 | 77 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 8 |
| Female | 16 | 9 | 56 | 3 | 19 | 4 | 25 | |
| Total | 29 | 19 | 66 | 5 | 17 | 5 | 17 | |
| 1992 | Male | 17 | 5 | 29 | 5 | 29 | 7 | 41 |
| Female | 24 | 4 | 17 | 10 | 42 | 10 | 42 | |
| Total | 41 | 9 | 22 | 15 | 37 | 17 | 41 | |
| a Age class 1, <2-yr-old; age class 2, ≥2-yr-old
and <3-yr-old; age class 3, ≥3-yr-old. b Capture locations in 1979 through 1990 given in Greenwood and Sargeant (1994). |
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