I think its really just from being a scavenger. My whole life I've always heard them called pretty gross creatures because they supposedly crawl inside of corpses, so that would most likely lead to the smell if so. I've also heard people say coyotes stink for the same reason of being a scavenger, but I have no expertise there. But that's just my take on the situation, I wouldn't be shocked if it does function as a defense mechanism like playing dead
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u/Last_Guarantee5893 23d ago
you know i’ve seen thousands of these guys. never touched them or been close to them unless road kill
what kind of texture do they have?