The greatest causes of raccoon deaths are hunters and motor vehicle accidents followed by diseases and predators.
If a deer feels threatened by a raccoon it could stomp a raccoon to death or kill it with its antlers. However, deer usually pose no threats to a raccoon and raccoons pose no threats to raccoons.
Motor vehicles and hunters are the biggest threats to raccoons.
The raccoon lives on whatever soil is found in its habitat. They have no preference.
The northern (common) raccoon lives in Pennsylvania as well as all other states except Hawaii and Alaska.
There is only one species of raccoon in North America and that is the common, or northern, raccoon - Procyon lotor.
Why would anyone jab a raccoon dog? The raccoon dog is a species of wild dog that resembles a raccoon and lives in parts of Asia.
Wolves, coyotes, cougars, bobcats and humans are the main threats to raccoons in North America.
There are two or three species of raccoon in the world:1.) Northern (or common) raccoon that lives in North and Central America. 2.) Crab eating raccoon is native to Central and South America. 3.) Cozumel (or pygmy) raccoon lives on Cozumel Island in Mexico. Some consider this a sub species of the common raccoon.
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Raccoon
There is only one species of raccoon in North America - the common (or northern) raccoon - also known as Procyon lotor. There is a second raccoon species found primarily in South America.
Raccoon dogs live in Japan, but really a lot of Asia. Red and Arctic foxes live there too.