Raccoons live in many major metropolitan areas. They are enticed by the ample supply of food in the form of human garbage as well as the rats and mice it attracts.
Raccoons and cockroaches are two of the most adaptable creatures on earth.
Raccoons adapt to their environments by eating what foods are available and not being picky about what they eat. They also adapt to their environment by making nests in dumpsters, chimney's, and other man made objects.
Vehicles are a big problem anywhere for raccoons. Car accidents kill more raccoons than any other cause.
Raccoons can adapt to almost any habitat - forests (including rain forests), grasslands, swamps, deserts. They are also well adapted to living in cities and towns.
Raccoons are animals and have no likes and dislikes in the human way. They adapt to what ever nature throws at them. If the weather is snowy and they cannot forage for food, they simply stay in their den and sleep until conditions improve.
Raccoons do not build a home, they are opportunistic and will use whatever they find for a den - a storm sewer, an abandoned burrow of some other animal, a rocky crevice, a crawl space under a home, an abandoned building, an attic, etc.
It includes the raccoons, coatis, kinkajous, olingos, olinguitos, ringtails and cacomistles.
Raccoon do eat pumpkins because I read a book called city critters and it said that they do.
Raccoons are not birds. Raccoons are mammals.
Raccoons do not live in ponds but may forage for food in a pond looking for crabs, snails, crayfish, frogs and fish. They live on land, however.
The city provided easy to obtain foods in the form of garbage and rodents. It also has numerous places that provide shelter.
The plural of raccoon is raccoons.