Talk:American hog-nosed skunk

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Some additional references:

• http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Conepatus_leuconotus.html
• http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/detail.asp?recnum=MA0159 (National Wildlife Federation)
• http://press.princeton.edu/birds/mammals/skunks/ehog.html
• http://museum.utep.edu/chih/theland/animals/mammals/conemeso.htm
  • "Recent work has concluded that the Eastern Hog-nosed Skunk and the Western Hog-nosed Skunk were not separate species; Conepatus leuconotus is the correct name of the merged populations under the rules of zoological nomenclature."

--A. B. ^(talk) 17:57, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Interesting, so if they're not seperate species, what would cause one of them to be significantly larger than the other? Is dwarfism in play here, sort of how like the saltwater crocodiles in Australia are gradually growing shorter? On my North American mammal field guide, the author only lists the eastern version, and mentions that "some authors also recognize another species, C. mesoleucus." Dionyseus 21:35, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

In your first link it is stated that the Eastern version has not been sighted since 1966, this is quite interesting. I think what's going on is that first we have C.leuconotus in parts of Texas and New Mexico, in an attempt to survive some members of the species migrated to nearby states Colorado, Arizona, and Oklahoma. The migrators managed to reproduce very well, but the larger population meant fiercer competition for food and they gradually grew smaller as a result. The non-migrators perhaps died out, probably due to several factors such as competition and climate changes. Dionyseus 21:56, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

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