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Badass skunk chases off a cougar like it's NBD

That is one brave skunk.
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Brian Koerber
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Badass skunk chases off a cougar like it's NBD
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That is one brave skunk.

YouTuber Greg Shyba was driving near Calgary, Canada recently when he spotted a skunk in the middle of the road. But just a few moments later, the little skunk had a big visitor.

Suddenly, a large cougar hops out from the brush and can be seen stalking the skunk. Just when it seemed over for the little stinker, things took a turn. When the cougar gets close enough, the skunk turns and chases it off the road. Unsatisfied with the distance between the puma and the skunk, it continues to chase it off into the brush.

Adult skunks have the ability to spray an extremely stinky liquid as a form of defense, but it doesn't appear as if this little badass even needed to get to that.

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Brian Koerber

Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.


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