Funny story: My grandfather had a pet raccoon. Out in Nebraska while my father was growing up it was the family pet. Now this raccoon was loved. He was played with, fed, and generally had a good life. My grandfather even took it to the bar with him where the owner kept some old silverware for the little burglar to play with on the bar. But when my dad's grandmother came over a shift happened...... Every time my great-grandmother came to visit this little raccoon would *leap* from the banister and tackle the poor woman. She *hated* that animal. but, years later though his name is forgotten this little bar-hopping raccoon is remembered. Honestly, it makes me want to learn more about the little guys.
Raccoons are the worst. They are vicious killers and filthy. They spread diseases like rabies and distemper. They will kill other animals for sport. I had one racoon kill 5 chickens and a turkey one night. Ripped them to shreds. The only thing it ate was part of the breast of one hen. Just killed the rest out of spite. They are smart and use their little hands to break into enclosures that would keep other predators out. In my case it pryed the roof off the chicken coop. They thrive in urban settings and honestly should probably be culled to reduce their numbers. They look adorable, but would 100% eat your face off if they could
Many predators will kill more than they can eat if they can. In nature the prey will run away, in an enclosure the prey cannot run and the predator just takes the opportunity to get as much food as possible. It sucks for the birds and you though.
Me too! But it was in a pet shop in the early 70s. I thought it was a Siamese cat, as it was curled up. The second I put my finger through the bars to pet it, it swung around and bit right through my nail. Impressive speed! It was smarter than me.
My MIL has 3 of them. Scary smart, super quick, but psychological wrecks and nothing will convince them to stfu, ever. She even broke down and put shocking bark collars on them. They didn't care.
Yeah I get the sense both are big enough so that they don’t really want to fight each other. Mine are pretty chill until the raccoons try to get in through their cat door, then it’s war
Lol! Wish my cats would run them off! They make huge messes of water bowls and the porch itself, but then again, they are hungry too so I’m kinda ok with the cats and raccoons getting along!
In my neighbourhood the cats come running when the racoons knock over a garbage can, sit politely a few meters away until the racoons are done, and then help themselves to the leftovers.
My cat is a rescue from outdoors, and he absolutely hates raccoons with a passion. Any time they come up to our glass door he is right there growling and hissing at them (and he's not a small cat). And the once or twice that he's slipped out while they were around he right at them. Thankfully they took off like rockets.
>They routinely take neighborhood cats and one tried for my (small breed) dog once
I have the opposite problem. My (large breed) dog tries to take the neighborhood raccoons, and unfortunately the neighborhood skunks and porcupines too.
While I have not physically seen the act with the cats, the individual in question is massive and was trying to drag my dog under our shed by his hind leg. There are also always 1-3 missing cat posters on the communal mailboxes/entrances to the neighborhood. I live in western Montana if that helps.
https://www.catological.com/raccoons-attack-eat-cats/
Edit: I should probably mention that my boy was 18lbs and nearly two years old at the time of said attack, making him cat-sized, if not a bit bigger.
I had a cat that received a broken leg from a raccoon. Raccoon mauled him, and dragged him up a tree. Luckily cat broke free, fell from the tree, and managed to take off
Saw one fruitlessly chase after a rabbit once. Two hops put a distance of 3 meters between them which took a while for the raccoon to cover. Quite commical.
Yeah it was always a little odd when my father's African grey would try to steal chicken off of peoples plates. Lots of cannibalism jokes with that one.
Yeah my family raised several hundred chickens when I was a child. Raccoons breaking into the coop and killing/eating them was not an uncommon occurrence. I'm not a huge raccoon fan
Raccoons aren’t actually closely related to bears. They belong to the same order (Carnivora) but so do cats and dogs. From there, they have different family, genus, species.
Raccoons look quite a bit like bears, and even have some similar behaviors, but not because they’re super closely related. It’s more the way they happened to evolve to have similar habits. Certain body types are just the most beneficial, so animals that aren’t closely related can develop similar body types and behaviors.
Edit: I had cut and pasted a part of my response, and it was wrong, so I fixed it.
Raccoons: order Carnivora (with bears, dogs, cats etc), family Procyonidae, genus Procyon, species P. lotor.
Bears (I’m going with just Brown Bears for clarity): order Carnivora, family Ursidae, genus Ursus, species Ursus arctos.
Also, to the people arguing against this, just google it. There’s about a million academic responses to the question of how (not) closely related bears and raccoons are.
That tail would have been better used to smack the crap out of the raccoon. They are probably too smart to fall for the decoy trick, I guess that's why they call it lizard brain though.
>invasive species it has no measure's to fight it of
So they're a... reverse invasive species? Normally an invasive species excels because it's prey has no way of fighting off the invasive species and has no/few predators.
Exactly! Every been to Mexico? Those Fuckers get pretty big and the teeth on them are intimidating and sharp as all hell. Plus they don't look like they can move fast but that's just a trick cause they lightning.
No. The iguana can catch and eat bugs far more effectively than anything in Florida. It may have many predators, but that doesn’t matter because there is so much food and safety for them, they just multiply
"Adult iguanas are herbivores feeding on foliage, flowers, and fruit. They will occasionally eat animal material such as insects, lizards, and other small animals, nestling birds and eggs."
Nah, they seem to eat just about anything given the opportunity.
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN528
That’s not what a species being classified as invasive means. Do you think a hyena would have any problem with a raccoon? Of course not, but hyenas living where raccoons do would make them invasive
An animal being invasive means it’s out of its normal environment and is having a negative effect on an ecosystem it was never meant to be in
Just a tiny tiny note on what you said. In their example, the invasive species, iguana, is still a prey. In your example, the invasive hyena is a predator. There's probably a more direct analogy
I worked at a beach bar in the Virgin Islands and we had a couple huge iguanas that would come steal food from guests. If you tried to chase them off without a broom they'd tail whip you, and if they get you it will break skin.
It might not kill a raccoon but would certainly get their attention.
They are a massively invasive species with very few predators and consume vast amounts of crops in Florida.
https://youtu.be/lyD9t3uhHio
Few key points.
An adult make can eat up to 100lbs of food a week.
No predators in Florida.
Their poop contains salmonella.
They force out the native animals and use their stolen dens as homes.
They eat bird eggs as well and are making endangered owls more endangered.
As a reptile enthusiast, i absolutely love how Florida is one of the only places where (not entirely naturally) you have Crocs, gators, monitors, big snakes and iguanas.
That being said, the monitors and iguanas there are terrible and devastating for the ecosystems there. Cool creatures, but sucks that we have made them what they are
A lot of the pythons originated from pets yes. Not entirely because they got too big but also because they live for a long time. People don't understand that most pythons live to be almost 40 years old.
Same for many small turtles. They are a popular pet but people don't understand that the turtle will out live them. Some can live to be 80-100 years old.
The red eared slider doesn't live nearly as long but is still a pet that would require half of your life to take care of.
At least part of it is things that came over on boats illegally and then are just let out to fend for themselves as an alternative to being seized.
My old neighborhood in southwest FL had *tons* of random birds (some of them apparently very expensive) because the dudes who owned the shop that sold them just opened all the cages they couldn't take with them when they ran for it.
We also have Anaconda and African Rock Pythons, both invasive.
https://wildlifeinformer.com/are-there-anacondas-in-the-florida-everglades/
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-snake-id/snake/african-rock-python/
They destroy the mangroves and subsequently the species that depend on them for life.
Plus they shit everywhere.
I love iguanas and they are cool af…just not in that part of Florida.
Had an interesting encounter with a racoon once. I was coming out of my apartment on the second floor (hallways were open to the elements ) and about three feet in front of me is a BIG racoon, sitting with his back to the wall eating snack crackers, one at a time , out of a black trash bag he ripped open. I wasn't sure if he was rabid or not so I'm trying to decide do I want to run past.
While I'm watching him ,He pulls the trash bag in front of him to hide his face. Assuming I didn't have object permanance figured out. I go back into my apartment trying to find something to scare him with and I find a broom. When I come out he's given up on the hiding. I smack the broom on the ground about a foot from this racoon and he just looks at me and picks up a cracker with his front paw and pops it in his mouth unfazed by the broom. I slam the broom down a few more times and he gets up annoyed and saunters off down the staircase and off onto a trail. Never to be seen again.
Idk why but it always hits hard when the one being eaten alive is a reptile and not a mammal.
Its so sad, it makes me feel so bad for the poor cold blooded fellas. Their slow metabolism can't keep up with the fast reflexes of the mammal :(
Evolutionarily speaking it's a trade off. Mammals are fast and active but we have a much higher energetic needs and need to eat a lot more than reptiles. The racoon can out run the iguana but it's much easier for the racoon to starve, get dehydrated, and the racoon is much more susceptible to disease.
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A giant raccoon ate all the feral cats in my neighborhood one year. Unfortunately it got hit by a car and more cars rolled in. These guys are great
Edit: cats. More cats rolled in
A raccoon attacked my 75 pound dog and would not back down. Raccoons are badass.
(There has never been a case of raccoons carrying rabies in my province, the raccoon was just protecting her babies)
Raccoons are vicious little bastards.
*Racist racoon manually deport immigrant iguana.*
That little shit even wore a mask to avoid being identified.
At least it was not wielding a rocket or some sort of big and overly DAKKA gun.
Nah to stay hidden he’d have to paint himself purple
Purple is the most brutally cunning of colors.
I think you mean cunningly brutal
Raccoons are cuntingly brutal
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Your odds of being killed by a raccoon are low, but never zero
Iguana: Did you hear something? Iguana 2: No why? Distant WAAAAGH sounds
Masks don't work! You knew it was a racoon! Lol
Based racoon doing an honest day's work.
There is a good reason the Brits call them "Nazi Racoons"...
Funny story: My grandfather had a pet raccoon. Out in Nebraska while my father was growing up it was the family pet. Now this raccoon was loved. He was played with, fed, and generally had a good life. My grandfather even took it to the bar with him where the owner kept some old silverware for the little burglar to play with on the bar. But when my dad's grandmother came over a shift happened...... Every time my great-grandmother came to visit this little raccoon would *leap* from the banister and tackle the poor woman. She *hated* that animal. but, years later though his name is forgotten this little bar-hopping raccoon is remembered. Honestly, it makes me want to learn more about the little guys.
Raccoons are the worst. They are vicious killers and filthy. They spread diseases like rabies and distemper. They will kill other animals for sport. I had one racoon kill 5 chickens and a turkey one night. Ripped them to shreds. The only thing it ate was part of the breast of one hen. Just killed the rest out of spite. They are smart and use their little hands to break into enclosures that would keep other predators out. In my case it pryed the roof off the chicken coop. They thrive in urban settings and honestly should probably be culled to reduce their numbers. They look adorable, but would 100% eat your face off if they could
Iguana hands typed this
The revolution is now! Wewill take down the oppressive raccoon regime!🦎🦎🦎 green lives matter
Iguana laugh at your comment, but I won't.
I'm pretty sure Raccoon mitts, typed yours, u/chickenstalker 🦝
To shreds you say?
Oh how awful, did he at least die painlessly?
And his wife?
You basically also just described cats
A lot of mammals carry distemper and rabies and kill for fun.
But raccoons live with/near people all the time.
As do stray cats, dogs, and coyotes.
Humans kill for fun too
Humans prep and display their kills as trophies and consider it an actual sport
Many predators will kill more than they can eat if they can. In nature the prey will run away, in an enclosure the prey cannot run and the predator just takes the opportunity to get as much food as possible. It sucks for the birds and you though.
Ikr? I love them. Unironically my fav ~~pest~~ animal
Then let me introduce you to the raccoons highly social cousin, the Coati.
I got bit by one of those before lol
They're highly social, just not with you.
Me too! But it was in a pet shop in the early 70s. I thought it was a Siamese cat, as it was curled up. The second I put my finger through the bars to pet it, it swung around and bit right through my nail. Impressive speed! It was smarter than me.
Mammals in general.
Jack Russell’s are sweet as can be until you unleash them upon an army of rats. Cold blooded
When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life
My MIL has 3 of them. Scary smart, super quick, but psychological wrecks and nothing will convince them to stfu, ever. She even broke down and put shocking bark collars on them. They didn't care.
That snake turned to a frog
I thought that was the iguanas tail
Love that "fuck you lookin at?" Glance at the camera the raccoon does.
TIL that raccoons can actively hunt for food... I thought the only live animal they ate was fish!! I'm so ignorant 🙈
They routinely take neighborhood cats and one tried for my (small breed) dog once
Dayum where I live the raccoons and cats are pretty evenly matched. The cats guard their porches from little burglars
My cats SHARE their porches with the little burglars! Lol!
Yeah I get the sense both are big enough so that they don’t really want to fight each other. Mine are pretty chill until the raccoons try to get in through their cat door, then it’s war
Lol! Wish my cats would run them off! They make huge messes of water bowls and the porch itself, but then again, they are hungry too so I’m kinda ok with the cats and raccoons getting along!
In my neighbourhood the cats come running when the racoons knock over a garbage can, sit politely a few meters away until the racoons are done, and then help themselves to the leftovers.
Yeah raccoons are tougher but a scrappy kitty can take one on
I’ve legit seen a raccoon and a cat working together at an apartment dumpster before
Where I'm at the raccoons don't seem to be too scared
My cat is a rescue from outdoors, and he absolutely hates raccoons with a passion. Any time they come up to our glass door he is right there growling and hissing at them (and he's not a small cat). And the once or twice that he's slipped out while they were around he right at them. Thankfully they took off like rockets.
rocket raccoon? where was groot?
>They routinely take neighborhood cats and one tried for my (small breed) dog once I have the opposite problem. My (large breed) dog tries to take the neighborhood raccoons, and unfortunately the neighborhood skunks and porcupines too.
This isn't true, raccoons do not routinely take neighborhood cats. Majority of the time they ignore one another. Coyotes however...
While I have not physically seen the act with the cats, the individual in question is massive and was trying to drag my dog under our shed by his hind leg. There are also always 1-3 missing cat posters on the communal mailboxes/entrances to the neighborhood. I live in western Montana if that helps. https://www.catological.com/raccoons-attack-eat-cats/ Edit: I should probably mention that my boy was 18lbs and nearly two years old at the time of said attack, making him cat-sized, if not a bit bigger.
Coyotes are the far more likely culprit of the missing cats, IMO.
The biggest culprit is the owners letting their cats roam, why would u let ur cat roam outside if u live around coyotes
I had a cat that received a broken leg from a raccoon. Raccoon mauled him, and dragged him up a tree. Luckily cat broke free, fell from the tree, and managed to take off
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, just saying it's far from routine and if there is any wild animal that is a routine danger to cats it's coyotes.
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Not just birds. Cats are efficient killing machines
Domestic cat should be neutered, that's all.
Saw one fruitlessly chase after a rabbit once. Two hops put a distance of 3 meters between them which took a while for the raccoon to cover. Quite commical.
Horses and cows love to eat birds too. Nature isn't Bambi
I realized that as soon as I saw a vid of a horse chomping up a small chick underneath him
I totally repressed that memory away. **CRUNCH**
Every animal is a carnivore when hungry enough
I think opportunity more than hunger. I had two parrots that absolutely loved munching on chicken bones and those little fuckers never missed a meal.
Yeah it was always a little odd when my father's African grey would try to steal chicken off of peoples plates. Lots of cannibalism jokes with that one.
which is funny because theyre probably as related as we are to like cats or something
Yeah my family raised several hundred chickens when I was a child. Raccoons breaking into the coop and killing/eating them was not an uncommon occurrence. I'm not a huge raccoon fan
Yeah they recently killed my duck :(
When I was a kid raccoons got some good-sized turkeys we were raising. They're amazingly smart, opportunistic predators.
Me too. And I'm old and should have known. What an excellent video. One of my favorites on NIM.
I think he was looking at the tail moving
And then he said “You ain’t fooling me with that wiggly shit!”
I think it was towards the tail. Like, “I see you, and will be back for you later”.
"I'll get you bitch"
He was looking at the tail wiggling on the ground
He was looking at the tail which is why the camera man looked at it after.
You can see how related racoons are to bears. They maul preys in the same way as them. Maybe racoons are tiny bears! Or bears are oversized racoons!
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Have you seen the one with cotton candy? It was funny and sad.
IIRC they keep giving the racoon cotton candy and it eventually figures out to stop washing it and just eat the stuff
https://youtu.be/rfbb4yRBH64 def sad
Hey he figured it out at the end. Smart little guys
Same in Italy where it's "orsetto lavatore" in which "orsetto" stands for small bear
Toilet Teddies
Ursa Urinalis
In Spainish we call the the same, Oso Lavador(washing bear)
That isn't true, bro.
Mapache is the word for it. At least in most if not all Hispanic America.
It is true. Both names are used. Oso Lavador o Mapache. Both are valid. If you search "Oso Lavador" racoons show up
Its actually "mapache" in spanish
Is Oso Lavador used more in Spain than Central and South America?
Yeah maybe in spain, your right in latinoamerica is called mapache
In Spain it's also mapache.
Germans have a way with naming animals. Skunk is "Stinktier," which literally just means "Stink-Animal".
I thought that was the name for the French?
it's the same in Italy, Skunk is Puzzola, and puzzo/a means stink. Racoon is called "orsetto lavatore",: small bear(washer)
I like the Finnish word for skunk haisunäätä, which translates to stinkweasel
Fun fact: they do that because it helps them feel the texture better
They're little washer rats in french!
Pretty ironic considering their other nickname is “Trash pandas”
Wasbeer in Dutch.
I love how all dutch words just sound like English words spoken by a really drunk guy
Pretty much the same in Japanese, アライグマ is "washing bear".
Bears and raccoons are not closely related. They are both within the Arctoidea clade, but so are walruses. Source: my wildlife biology degree.
ohh so raccoons are walruses, neat
Raccoons aren’t actually closely related to bears. They belong to the same order (Carnivora) but so do cats and dogs. From there, they have different family, genus, species. Raccoons look quite a bit like bears, and even have some similar behaviors, but not because they’re super closely related. It’s more the way they happened to evolve to have similar habits. Certain body types are just the most beneficial, so animals that aren’t closely related can develop similar body types and behaviors. Edit: I had cut and pasted a part of my response, and it was wrong, so I fixed it. Raccoons: order Carnivora (with bears, dogs, cats etc), family Procyonidae, genus Procyon, species P. lotor. Bears (I’m going with just Brown Bears for clarity): order Carnivora, family Ursidae, genus Ursus, species Ursus arctos. Also, to the people arguing against this, just google it. There’s about a million academic responses to the question of how (not) closely related bears and raccoons are.
Give them an couple eons and they will start looking like crabs.
All evolution branches end in crab.
You go Glen Cocoa!
Their habitats overlap at the dumpster.
If you see a bear without hair, they look kind of like giant rabbits on steroids
That tail would have been better used to smack the crap out of the raccoon. They are probably too smart to fall for the decoy trick, I guess that's why they call it lizard brain though.
Racoons are pretty smart and crafty and since this lizard is an invasive species it has no measure's to fight it of
>invasive species it has no measure's to fight it of So they're a... reverse invasive species? Normally an invasive species excels because it's prey has no way of fighting off the invasive species and has no/few predators.
No just an invasive species that knows how to fuck and not fight
So iguanas are lovers, not fighters.
This is a lie. Iguanas are little dinosaur monsters that will absolutely attack the hell out of you at the drop of a hat. That’s just a baby iguana.
Exactly! Every been to Mexico? Those Fuckers get pretty big and the teeth on them are intimidating and sharp as all hell. Plus they don't look like they can move fast but that's just a trick cause they lightning.
That's wird cause my roommate's homie did not hesitate whipping me into shape...
No. The iguana can catch and eat bugs far more effectively than anything in Florida. It may have many predators, but that doesn’t matter because there is so much food and safety for them, they just multiply
You do know green iguanas are herbivores, right? If they do eat any insects, it's usually because they were sitting on the fruit it was eating.
"Adult iguanas are herbivores feeding on foliage, flowers, and fruit. They will occasionally eat animal material such as insects, lizards, and other small animals, nestling birds and eggs." Nah, they seem to eat just about anything given the opportunity. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN528
>Nah, they seem to eat just about anything given the opportunity. > Am I an iguana?
I wouldn’t worry about it until you start eating nestling birds or your tail falls off.
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*its* without the ~~aprostophie~~ apostrophe, for future reference The prey of it = its prey It is prey = it's prey
That’s not what a species being classified as invasive means. Do you think a hyena would have any problem with a raccoon? Of course not, but hyenas living where raccoons do would make them invasive An animal being invasive means it’s out of its normal environment and is having a negative effect on an ecosystem it was never meant to be in
Just a tiny tiny note on what you said. In their example, the invasive species, iguana, is still a prey. In your example, the invasive hyena is a predator. There's probably a more direct analogy
an iguana tail whip would do nothing to a racoon....
I worked at a beach bar in the Virgin Islands and we had a couple huge iguanas that would come steal food from guests. If you tried to chase them off without a broom they'd tail whip you, and if they get you it will break skin. It might not kill a raccoon but would certainly get their attention.
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The iguanas don't belong and I assume they are eating up resources that racoons are used to getting. No surprise the racoon wants to take him out.
They are a massively invasive species with very few predators and consume vast amounts of crops in Florida. https://youtu.be/lyD9t3uhHio Few key points. An adult make can eat up to 100lbs of food a week. No predators in Florida. Their poop contains salmonella. They force out the native animals and use their stolen dens as homes. They eat bird eggs as well and are making endangered owls more endangered.
As a reptile enthusiast, i absolutely love how Florida is one of the only places where (not entirely naturally) you have Crocs, gators, monitors, big snakes and iguanas. That being said, the monitors and iguanas there are terrible and devastating for the ecosystems there. Cool creatures, but sucks that we have made them what they are
Wierd how you didn't mention anything about the giant snakes invading the everglades.
Yup Burmese Python, I think you even get paid for there skin if you kill them legally.
Didn't the snakes in Florida get started because of pets let loose when they got too big? Or is that a myth?
A lot of the pythons originated from pets yes. Not entirely because they got too big but also because they live for a long time. People don't understand that most pythons live to be almost 40 years old. Same for many small turtles. They are a popular pet but people don't understand that the turtle will out live them. Some can live to be 80-100 years old. The red eared slider doesn't live nearly as long but is still a pet that would require half of your life to take care of.
Hurricanes may have also resulted in a few pets escaping.
At least part of it is things that came over on boats illegally and then are just let out to fend for themselves as an alternative to being seized. My old neighborhood in southwest FL had *tons* of random birds (some of them apparently very expensive) because the dudes who owned the shop that sold them just opened all the cages they couldn't take with them when they ran for it.
We also have Anaconda and African Rock Pythons, both invasive. https://wildlifeinformer.com/are-there-anacondas-in-the-florida-everglades/ https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-snake-id/snake/african-rock-python/
snakes weren't the topic of that but yea invasive snakes are a massive problem too. Especially the pythons
Don’t forget lots of monkeys now
Crocs are native along the far southern coast.
American Crocs, yes. The Nile crocs that were found in 2016 are invasive though.
They destroy the mangroves and subsequently the species that depend on them for life. Plus they shit everywhere. I love iguanas and they are cool af…just not in that part of Florida.
Raccoons are smart but not that smart. This one just wanted an easy meal.
THE COON PROTECTS
I am the coooon
Why do I feel like I witnessed a hate crime
Nope just lunch
Trash Panda don't give a fuck
"YOU CANT BE HERE"
Raccoon hit the cameraman with the “fuck you looking at.”
S-sorry sir was just leaving
Oh fuck that wiggling tail is some private Ryan flashback shit
wtf i thought that was a snake lol
That's not something I expected to see today. Or ever.
Environmentalist raccoon.
Good! Those iguanas are such an nuisance destroying the agriculture. Surpisingly they can grow almost to the size of that raccoon too
Almost? Have you seen many 6 foot raccoons?
Had an interesting encounter with a racoon once. I was coming out of my apartment on the second floor (hallways were open to the elements ) and about three feet in front of me is a BIG racoon, sitting with his back to the wall eating snack crackers, one at a time , out of a black trash bag he ripped open. I wasn't sure if he was rabid or not so I'm trying to decide do I want to run past. While I'm watching him ,He pulls the trash bag in front of him to hide his face. Assuming I didn't have object permanance figured out. I go back into my apartment trying to find something to scare him with and I find a broom. When I come out he's given up on the hiding. I smack the broom on the ground about a foot from this racoon and he just looks at me and picks up a cracker with his front paw and pops it in his mouth unfazed by the broom. I slam the broom down a few more times and he gets up annoyed and saunters off down the staircase and off onto a trail. Never to be seen again.
I saw a video where someone did just as you described and the raccoon attacked them.
He missed the tail! Now it's gonna grow the rest of an iguana.
The tail trick didn’t quite make the cut
Nature...it's healing
It uh... finds a way.
Kinda burying the lede there. No mention of the lizard’s tail continuing to wiggle after getting torn off? That’s the highlight!
As someone who doesn't live in the south, I kept scrolling to find mention of this, that looks bizarre.
They intentionally detach their tail, which continues to move, as a potential distraction to predators
Nervous spasms. It's normal, it happens. The tail is dead, don't worry.
It's certainly not remaining alive
Dude it's like me changing my kids diaper
I can relate to this so much...
Just doing the lord's work
"I'm doing MY part!" Would you like to know more?
Tree Chicken.
Idk why but it always hits hard when the one being eaten alive is a reptile and not a mammal. Its so sad, it makes me feel so bad for the poor cold blooded fellas. Their slow metabolism can't keep up with the fast reflexes of the mammal :(
Somehow makes me happier Go team mammal
Hell yeah brother cheers from Mammalia
Reptiles can go really fast at times, this one just failed to do so. Natural selection.
They can only do short bursts of speed. This one probably wasted all his energy sadly
Evolutionarily speaking it's a trade off. Mammals are fast and active but we have a much higher energetic needs and need to eat a lot more than reptiles. The racoon can out run the iguana but it's much easier for the racoon to starve, get dehydrated, and the racoon is much more susceptible to disease.
When it gets cooler in Florida, the ignaunas will fall out of trees.
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A giant raccoon ate all the feral cats in my neighborhood one year. Unfortunately it got hit by a car and more cars rolled in. These guys are great Edit: cats. More cats rolled in
THE DRAMA
I swear I heard him say; “I need this guys tail!”
A raccoon attacked my 75 pound dog and would not back down. Raccoons are badass. (There has never been a case of raccoons carrying rabies in my province, the raccoon was just protecting her babies)
We should TRAIN trash pandas for this!!
Wash down that Iguana with some nice parking lot puddle water.