Sunda Stink-badger
Mydaus javanensis
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 52
- Most observed in
- 🇲🇾 Malaysia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The Sunda stink badger (Mydaus javanensis), also called the Javan stink badger, teledu, Malay stink badger, Malay badger, Indonesian stink badger and Sunda skunk, is a mammal native to Indonesia and Malaysia. Despite the common name, stink badgers are not closely related to true badgers, and are, instead, Old World relatives of the skunks. Coincidentally, its local name sigung in Sundanese is a false cognate to skunk which is of Algonquian origin.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Sunda stink badger”.