Raccoons lifted the lids off the garbage pails left at the curb for the morning pickup.
The program is aimed primarily at raccoons but other animals are affected as well.
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The coureurs des bois soon diversified from the beaver trade into other furs, seeking bears, foxes, wolves and raccoons.
Millions of foxes, rabbits, chinchillas, raccoons, minks, coyotes and, yes, dogs are cruelly raised and viciously slaughtered for fur.
Most mammals -- dogs, cats, raccoons -- walk and run around on the balls of their feet, the study says.
The centre is home to more than 30 different species of bird of prey, and primates, reptiles, invertebrates, raccoons and cats.
Raccoons feast on nests of eggs they never could have reached before.
Bats are one of the most common animals that transmit rabies in the United States, along with raccoons, skunks, foxes and coyotes.
Most of the few human rabies cases in the U.S. are transmitted by bats, although raccoons are more often diagnosed with the disease.
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Raccoons are susceptible to rabies and this one looked mad, its eyes glowing, and saliva, like liquid glue, hanging from both sides of its jaw.
He wanted to be well, to run on the hill in the starlight, to ride on the paths in the park in a cart pulled by six raccoons.
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The CDC then examined autopsy tissue from the donor and determined he had died of the same type of rabies, which is spread by raccoons, according to the CDC.
This is the kind of absurd, sophistic reasoning that could lead the EPA to regulate outdoor trash can lids as a pesticide because they deter or mitigate a "pest"--namely, raccoons.
Raccoons being actually bigger than they appear in cartoons.
Birds and certain smaller mammals such as rabbits and raccoons will usually go high to live in trees or on drift piles, but larger mammals have to clear out, according to Ribbeck.
The Bahamas switched overnight from protecting their raccoons to setting up programmes to eradicate them when a look at the genetic evidence showed the animals were common Northern raccoons, not a separate species.
The 400, 000-acre Ocala National Forest is a tangle of springs, sand-pine scrub and subtropical forest that is home to raccoons, flying squirrels, otters and black bears, as well as many species of bird.
The son's room now has no furniture, but the pelts of three raccoons, a beaver and a grey fox are on the wall, along with an unframed baby photo of Small's son, Shane, tacked to the wall.
The remaining pelt supply comes the old-fashioned way: The U.S. has 150, 000-plus pro and part-time fur hunters, mostly in the Midwest and Northeast, who pursue the likes of muskrats, beavers, raccoons, bobcats and, to a lesser extent, foxes, coyotes and mink--all under strict state regulation.
Despite abuse from a 15-pound baby girl, an attack by a pack of feral raccoons, a chewing by an ADD-addled river otter named Sidney, a ride to the bottom of a salt water pool with a dolphin, and a stomping from a 7, 400 pound elephant named Valerie, the Casio had survived.
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