Sunda stink badger Sunda stink badger 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. Sunda stink badgers have a similar body shape to badgers, but are significantly smaller, being in total length, and weighing from . Their fur is coarse, and black or very dark brown over most of the body, with a white stripe running from
Black-crowned night heron spots. Their underparts are paler and streaked with brown. The young birds have orange eyes and duller yellowish-green legs. They are very noisy birds in their nesting colonies, with calls that are commonly transcribed as "quok" or "woc". The breeding habitat is fresh and salt-water wetlands throughout much of the world. The subspecies "N. n. hoactli" breeds in North and South America from Canada as far south as northern Argentina and Chile, "N. n. obscurus" in southernmost South America, "N. n. falklandicus" in the Falkland Islands, and the nominate race "N. n. nycticorax" in Europe, Asia and Africa. Black-crowned night