Latest Raccoon Attack Raises Question: Is This the New Norm in Sacramento?  (New)

Date: September 8, 2011
Source: The Sacramento Bee
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This story about recent raccoon encounters in Sacramento quotes Dirk Van Vuren, an expert on human-wildlife conflicts and professor of wildlife biology at UC Davis. "Raccoons can get accustomed to people, and then they become defensive," he says. Van Vuren also explains that raccoons may attack smaller dogs because they view them as competitors. "Large dogs would be viewed as threats to be avoided, not attacked," he says.

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