As the car approaches, the skunk turns its back, raises its tail and does a little dance.
When faced with this signal, every animal in North America immediately decides it has urgent business elsewhere, but for some reason it doesn’t work on cars. :)
Almost always true. I had a yellow lab once that hated intruders in his yard and would take on anything that entered his territory including bears. He was after a skunk once that had taken up residence under a screened in porch in my house. He spent an hour tensely following him around the yard and took 4 direct hits but wouldn't give up. Finally, he charged the thing and got it by the neck. It managed to spray him, point blank, directly in the eyes before he broke its neck. His face swelled up and he blinked and blinked from the spray but survived and won the encounter.