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The invasive snakes, which were brought here from Southeast Asian by the exotic pet trade in the 1970s and 1980s, have thrived in Florida’s tropical and subtropical climate, and eat 85 species of animals here, including deer, bobcats, foxes, otters, rabbits, herons and alligators.
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Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 9 June 2025
Rattlesnakes are also around, as are deer and rabbits.
—A.k. Whitney, Oc Register, 4 June 2025
In some cases, the scent of a dog is enough to make animals, like rabbits, hesitant to visit your garden and snack on your plants.
—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 5 June 2025
Previously, Hennepin Healthcare used up to 150 sheep and 150 rabbits each year to teach invasive procedures like drilling a hole into an animal’s skull and opening the chest cavity to access the heart.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 3 June 2025
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Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 9 June 2025
Rattlesnakes are also around, as are deer and rabbits.
—A.k. Whitney, Oc Register, 4 June 2025
In some cases, the scent of a dog is enough to make animals, like rabbits, hesitant to visit your garden and snack on your plants.
—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 5 June 2025
Previously, Hennepin Healthcare used up to 150 sheep and 150 rabbits each year to teach invasive procedures like drilling a hole into an animal’s skull and opening the chest cavity to access the heart.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 3 June 2025
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Marvel's more impressive big swing was getting audiences to fall in love with a talking raccoon, a tree and their motley crew of space misfits.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
21 June 2025
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But dogs on bear hunts may kill raccoons and foxes and disturb other wildlife, argued Adam Sugalski, executive director of One Protest and its Bear Defenders campaign.—
Zoey Thomas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 June 2025
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While bears are easily the biggest fear in some parks, a pack of hungry racoons or an inquisitive skunk aren’t to be messed with either.—
Geoffrey Morrison,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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Areas with bears and smaller, scavenger animals like racoons, will typically have food lockers.—
Geoffrey Morrison,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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For the past 20 years, conservationists in Spain worked to rehabilitate their European beaver populations and eventually noticed beavers living closer and closer to the border with Portugal, the organization said.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
13 June 2025
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This led to a chain of cause and effect (a trophic cascade) that affected beavers, birds, and even the flow of the river.—
Nitin Sekar,
ArsTechnica,
5 Apr. 2025
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Many purported sightings of mountain lions in Oklahoma turn out to be other animals, including bobcats, house cats, dogs, coyotes, foxes, deer and rabbits.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 June 2025
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People and domestic animals should always avoid physical contact with wild animals such as raccoons, bats, foxes, skunks, otters, bobcats, coyotes, which carry a higher risk of human exposure and a need for rabies post-exposure treatment.—
Orlando Sentinel Staff,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 June 2025
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Artifacts inside the vessel, created by artist and sculptor Bill Mack, included a mink cap owned by the actor and a lock of her hair, all meant to be unearthed on August 5, 2062—the 100th anniversary of Monroe’s tragic death.—
Margaux Anbouba,
Vogue,
21 May 2025
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The developer plans to turn six parcels of rural residential and agricultural land, now owned by a Utah mink farming company, into the residential and commercial development.—
Rose Evans,
Idaho Statesman,
17 May 2025
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One East Hartford man shoots 100 muskrats for some reason.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
14 June 2025
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Painter and Jensen have seen beavers, muskrats, pond turtles, deer and black bears roaming the grounds.—
David Caraccio,
Sacramento Bee,
8 Mar. 2025
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Inside the big canvas structure, visitors find giant hares — that’s a rabbit — lizards, bantam chickens, chinchillas and hedgehogs, many of which are being seen for the first time by curious children.—
J.M. Banks,
Kansas City Star,
30 May 2025
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Other unusual animals that can be legally owned in the state include ferrets and chinchillas, llamas, alpacas, giraffes, bison, antelopes and marsupials like kangaroos.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
9 June 2025
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Visitors can also look for antelope, mule deer, and badgers; harder to spot are coyotes.—
Carrie Dennis,
Travel + Leisure,
14 June 2025
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The camera traps also picked up images of 17 other mammal species, ranging from caracal cats and porcupines to honey badgers and bushpigs, the family said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
13 May 2025
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“Rabbit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rabbit. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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