It’s not unusual to see skunks outside the city. But to see them at an apartment complex in the Bronx is quite unusual. And it has some people who live there keeping a close look every time they go outside.
In the Throgs Neck Houses, police patrol on mounted horses. Seeing a sleeping cat is normal. A squirrel is normal. And even a nest of green parrots is normal.
“It’s like a wildlife preserve here,” resident Bruce Ruiz said.
And now, unfortunately for residents, skunks are normal too. Ruiz has to be careful when he walks his dog at night.
“In the night, when the sun goes down, they come out,” he said. “You can smell them. You can smell the spray of the skunks.”
The black and white menaces showed up in the housing development a few years ago. Since then, they have reproduced. Read more..
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