many grown animals will be rehabbed after an injury and returned to the same area. Many of the baby wildlife are rehabbed and then kept domestically w permits or donated zoos or animal sanctuaries because they have not had an animal parent to teach them the skills they need. I would venture to say that many rehabbed babies are low chance of survival, people just try anyway. Raccoons are very smart but so are humans. Can you imagine just waking up one day in say.. xyz town in china. ? You have no idea where or how to find food, don't know anyone and are unfamiliar with everything have no resources. It is very stressful on them physically and too boot the animals have predators that are hunting them-coyotes, foxes, ect. They cannot take that kind of stress. They don't know where to hide, most animals are territorial, some live in groups (raccoons do) and are not accepted by the 'locals' who try to kill them or run them off.
