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Yeah I mean I assume something eats raccoons but by and large they seem to be a local Maxima in the food chain. They pretty much outnumber humans in Toronto.
by Avshalom 9y ago
Yeah I mean I assume something eats raccoons but by and large they seem to be a local Maxima in the food chain.
They pretty much outnumber humans in Toronto.
- LeifCarrotson 9y agoCoyotes eat racoons all the time out here in rural Michigan. They seem to prefer rabbits, or at least rabbits are louder: whenever I am out in the woods at night camping or just sitting around a campfire, I hear the death screams of a rabbit or three, indicating there are coyotes active. There aren't so many bobcats around anymore to help out, but they'll eat them too. Down here in the lower peninsula, we don't have wolves anymore (and you can tell from the huge number of cars in body shop parking lots from deer collisions), but I assume they'd take a raccoon if they wanted to. The problem, though, is that while the raccoons do fine around humans and even in cities, large predators like coyotes and bobcats don't. And if one does do well, they're exterminated (or, I suppose, sedated and moved out of the city humanely) like the wolves were. I'm sure you have plenty of all these predators in the wilderness outside Toronto up around Algonquin, but in cities and developed areas there are few natural predators.
- HankB99 9y ago>>The problem, though, is that while the raccoons do fine around humans and even in cities, large predators like coyotes and bobcats don't. http://coyotemap.com/ http://coyotemap.com/ We're just to the left of center on that map and see coyotes regularly. But we're suburban. Of more interest to me are the coyotes that live in downtown Chicago.