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Rocky Raccoon
Procyon lotor looks like he is my pet. I walked outside to feed the neighborhood cats that run all around where i live and saw this guy eating the rest of the Arthur's food. He sort of is my pet now because I have seen him for nearly a month now and he has been living in a palm tree. Raccoons are important because they fill a ecological niche of eating rodents and other small prey = population control. As well as being a food supply for larger predators like bobcats or coyotes that do frequent this area. Due to them being nomadic and eating nearly anything from cat food to picking out of the neighbors trashcan they will spread seeds and produce plants. The raccoon would be more essential for the neighboorhood we didn't already have 10 cats or more that are outdoor cats on rodent patrol. #image1 #bio366 #sp18 #UNCW #uncweteal #ecology
Sources:
wildlifedamage.uwex.edu/pdf/Raccoon.pdf
Rocky Raccoon
Procyon lotor looks like he is my pet. I walked outside to feed the neighborhood cats that run all around where i live and saw this guy eating the rest of the Arthur's food. He sort of is my pet now because I have seen him for nearly a month now and he has been living in a palm tree. Raccoons are important because they fill a ecological niche of eating rodents and other small prey = population control. As well as being a food supply for larger predators like bobcats or coyotes that do frequent this area. Due to them being nomadic and eating nearly anything from cat food to picking out of the neighbors trashcan they will spread seeds and produce plants. The raccoon would be more essential for the neighboorhood we didn't already have 10 cats or more that are outdoor cats on rodent patrol. #image1 #bio366 #sp18 #UNCW #uncweteal #ecology
Sources:
wildlifedamage.uwex.edu/pdf/Raccoon.pdf