Sometimes skunks become important to kids because they are inside video games.

Take a look at Gogle trends for "red dead skunk". A lot of kids were using Google to figure out where to find a skunk in the game Red Dead Redemption in June 2010.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...

Edit: And of course there was another spike in kid's interest in skunks in December 2018 when RDR2 came out. Check Google trends for "rdr2 skunk".