Raccoons are a serious problem especially during baby season, dissuading them from coming to your property either because they are living there or coming to make a latrine is something that many people would like to find. Sadly, as with many animals that live in a city they have no animal predators. While coyote urine …
Female raccoons, like humans, have an unstoppable drive because all mammals experience a flight or fight instinct when met with a predator except for females with children. They have something called the love hormone, or the bonding hormone. Their brain is capable of rapidly producing a very dangerous chemical drug that is illegal in most …
It’s not ammonia that deters them, it’s the urine of their predators. Wolves and coyotes are their predators. Canines like dogs hunt feline creatures like cats and raccoons. Humans cannot eat them as our bodies have gotten used to cooked food over the past seventy thousand years. We cannot eat any meat that is raw, …
It’s because they are nocturnal. All nocturnal animals sleep during the day and come out at night. They also tend to be coloured for the night which is why their fur is grey and black with dark rings around the eyes. Have you ever seen a football player rub black grease paint under his eyes? …
Raccoons do hibernate in the winter and in the wild they will find an old tree stump or in a hole in a tree, while these places are safe they are often not safe enough for a female and her babies. The reason for this is those raccoon males after mating seeks out other females …
Raccoons are nocturnal and carnivores, they are related to the feline and have the ability to eat almost anything including long-dead cadavers. This makes the raccoon an excellent night stalker and allows them to eat just about anything. In the daytime they tend to sleep in their dens, females during the baby season will often …
Raccoons are rarely out during the day unless they are sick or starving. Raccoons return to their den when they have finished hunting for food. They are nocturnal for that reason. Squirrels and humans are diurnal which means we prefer sunlight to darkness. This is consistent between dogs and cats. Cat people tend to be …
Raccoons, especially adult males can grow up thirty percent larger than the female of the species. They are also more aggressive and while they do not take part in child-rearing their singular goal aside from eating drinking and defecating is to hunt down every last baby raccoon that he did not create himself through mating. …
Raccoons are very fond of older fruit that has fallen from the tree, while they are great climbers they are fundamentally easy-going animals and like to take a lot of naps. So putting in the effort is for the baby season, otherwise, they want food that is easy to access and they want a lot …
Raccoons are carnivores that take part in a process called carry-on feeding. This is similar to many animals that pick an already killed and eaten corps, like vultures they do not care how old or how little meat is on it they will eat everything. This is one reason that even raccoons in the wild …
