07_Introducing_the_striped_skunk_p_20-23.pdf

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title	Introducing the Striped Skunk
creator	Curley, Rosemary
subject	Island Magazine
subject	Prince Edward Island Museum
description	Human memory has certain strengths, and one is the ability to recall the source of any odour, even after several decades. What exiled farm inhabitant could not identify the smell of newly turned earth, white clover, or horse manure? Still, a century ago, Prince Edward Island residents may have experienced a purer recall of the sweeter scents, for their brains were not yet cluttered with the memory of the malodorous skunk. Today no Islander can deny the familiar skunk odour. But in 1890, when naturalist Francis Bain lived and breathed pure air, he, like earlier authors who described our mammals, omitted the skunk with a clear conscience and an unsullied cerebrum.
publisher	Prince Edward Island Museum
contributor	1985
type	Document
format	application/pdf
identifier	vre:islemag-batch2-225
source	17
language	en_US
rights	Please note that this material is being presented for the sole purpose of research and private study. Any other use requires the permission of the copyright holder(s), and questions regarding copyright are the responsibility of the user.

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title	Introducing the Striped Skunk
creator	Curley, Rosemary
subject	Island Magazine
subject	Prince Edward Island Museum
description	Human memory has certain strengths, and one is the ability to recall the source of any odour, even after several decades. What exiled farm inhabitant could not identify the smell of newly turned earth, white clover, or horse manure? Still, a century ago, Prince Edward Island residents may have experienced a purer recall of the sweeter scents, for their brains were not yet cluttered with the memory of the malodorous skunk. Today no Islander can deny the familiar skunk odour. But in 1890, when naturalist Francis Bain lived and breathed pure air, he, like earlier authors who described our mammals, omitted the skunk with a clear conscience and an unsullied cerebrum.
publisher	Prince Edward Island Museum
contributor	1985
type	Document
format	application/pdf
identifier	vre:islemag-batch2-225
source	17
language	en_US
rights	Please note that this material is being presented for the sole purpose of research and private study. Any other use requires the permission of the copyright holder(s), and questions regarding copyright are the responsibility of the user.