While many animals hunker down for the winter, skunks in New York don’t fully hibernate—they enter a state of torpor, slowing down but occasionally waking to forage. By February, skunks become more active as the mating season kicks off. Males roam...

As human beings, we make choices each and every day. When you go to the mall to look for a pair of new shoes, you don't just grab the very first ones you see and buy them. If you did, chances are they wouldn't fit--and even if, by some miracle,...