{"id":469821,"date":"2026-02-12T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/469821\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:35:08","slug":"mountain-lion-vs-skunk-who-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/469821\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Lion vs. Skunk\u2014Who Wins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A skunk and a mountain lion come face to face in California\u2019s Angeles National Forest\u2014who comes out on top? A trail cam caught a mountain lion vs. skunk battle, and the footage does not disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/hero-woman-saves-skunk-from-jar-stuck-on-its-head\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u2018Hero\u2019 Woman Saves Skunk From Jar Stuck on Its Head<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/parliament0f0wls\/?g=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Robert Martinez<\/a> recently shared the video from 2022 on his Instagram, saying: \u201cMountain lion vs. skunk! Who\u2019s gonna win this one? Check out this little fearless warrior skunk confronting an apex predator in the Angeles National Forest. I couldn\u2019t believe my eyes when I first watched this footage. As I always say, expect the unexpected when setting up trail cameras in the wild. This rare moment was truly a wild one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch a mountain lion vs. a skunk on a trail cam here:<\/p>\n<p>Is that what you expected to happen?<\/p>\n<p>Header stock image by Mark Chivers\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Best Trail Cameras to Watch Wildlife<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/best-trail-cameras-to-watch-wildlife\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">best trail cams here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Outdoors.com<\/a>\u00a0may earn a commission when you make a purchase through affiliate links. Thank you for your support.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A skunk and a mountain lion come face to face in California\u2019s Angeles National Forest\u2014who comes out on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,18924,66,156167,26479,323,5488],"class_list":["post-469821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mountain-lion","tag-science","tag-skunk","tag-trail-camera","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}