{"id":752433,"date":"2026-07-09T11:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/752433\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T11:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:17:16","slug":"rare-western-spotted-skunks-released-into-wild-after-rehabilitation-in-san-diego-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/752433\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Western Spotted Skunks Released Into Wild After Rehabilitation In San Diego County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The skunks were released at a remote site in Valley Center after reaching developmental milestones and a healthy weight needed to survive on their own, according to San Diego Humane Society. One of the orphaned skunks was flown more than 400 miles from Northern California by Flying Tails Animal Rescue to join the group in Ramona. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"54855-1783522894\" data-image=\"54855-1783522894\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SDHS_Western Spotted Skunks Released 2026-07-01_12.jpg\" data- \/>The skunks were released at a remote site in Valley Center. Credit: San Diego Humane Society<\/p>\n<p>Officials said western spotted skunks are not commonly seen in wildlife rehabilitation. While Ramona Wildlife Center admits hundreds of striped skunks each year, receiving six western spotted skunks from different litters in one season is unusual because the species typically lives in remote forested areas rather than urban neighborhoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The skunks were released at a remote site in Valley Center after reaching developmental milestones and a healthy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-752433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}