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Feb 1, 2016 8:54 AM CST
Name: Elaine
Sarasota, Fl
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Urban raccoons should want to move away from urban areas to wilderness. Nature dictates they should be afraid of people but they're not. They would survive - or not - where they were meant to be, and not be a nuisance and health menace to people as well. Urban raccoons probably do not survive when relocated because they are no longer adapted to find food and shelter in wilderness. Therefore, urban raccoons are really no longer "wildlife". They're in the same class as rats - a menace.

It's true, we have taken over a lot of their former natural environment. But they have also expanded into areas where they were not native, like most of Florida! They're very adaptable, which has worked to change their whole behavior but not to anyone's advantage.
Elaine

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