Meet The World's Smelliest Animals

AOL News:

Pity the poor skunk. Its identity is wholly linked to its rank scent, so much so that it draws singular ridicule from humankind as a metaphor for all that stinks. Watch a Pepe Le Pew cartoon, and you would think that skunks were the only noxious animals in the animal kingdom.

It's a notion, of course, that's just rotten. There are plenty of animals that stink, but because of their relative obscurity they've avoided public scrutiny.

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Comments

[PORK RIND]

03:23 PM on 10/26/2010

No Joe Lieberman?

[aceshigh]

12:56 PM on 10/26/2010

Flush Rimbowl didn't make the list?

[Zoe y]

12:22 PM on 10/26/2010

Poor "Cess," someone get him a tissue.

[kareemachan]

12:12 PM on 10/26/2010

Good thing they warned us about the lesser anteater - the baby one in the photo looks pretty darned cute.

"Oooooh, just *look* at that darling little ant- arrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!"

[No stinking fans]

12:10 PM on 10/26/2010

No mention of mama grizzlies?
Their political philosophy definitly stinks.

[youvebinfarteen]

11:09 AM on 10/26/2010

Echidna, smells bad, covered with thorns and blows mucus bubbles, boy I want one of those.

[PORK RIND]

03:24 PM on 10/26/2010

Then you can dress up in polyester and train her to don some whips and chains...and....

[LaurieAnn]

11:05 AM on 10/26/2010

I really expected to see a photo of my son in that essay.

[getreal23]

01:58 PM on 10/26/2010

LOL Laurie Ann me too! especially after soccer practice.

[AristophanesJones]

09:22 AM on 10/26/2010

"Meet the world's smelliest animals."

Um, no thanks?

[barnowl]

09:03 AM on 10/26/2010

Armadillos have a special fragrance all their own. They are the stinkiest animal I've ever known. (Skunks excluded)

[Blow In]

08:54 AM on 10/26/2010

What about humans. I read one anthropologists theory on the reason our ancestors survived was because we stink. Predators won't eat us unless they are desperate.

Don't know if it is true, but I liked it. We like to believe that key to our temporary success is our intelligence. Our odor may be the reason for our survival and our intelligence may be what causes our extinction.

[LaurieAnn]

11:08 AM on 10/26/2010

Didn't you see the picture of the garbage collectors in Marseilles?

[rf dude]

07:31 AM on 10/26/2010

We're from Fr...

(no, i didn't)

[BeachBubbaTex]

07:16 AM on 10/26/2010

Okay, cool picture, I know what I'm going as for Halloween

[SolarPowerGuy]

07:13 AM on 10/26/2010

Elephants do smell worse than donkeys, I'll vouch for that.

[NoahVail]

06:26 AM on 10/26/2010

Is this why Tea Party candidates avoid public scrutiny? I always thought it was their policies they were trying to hide.