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Recent Examples of raccoon
Once a raccoon bites a person, the animal often must be euthanized and tested for rabies, a reality that rescue groups say already happens frequently when owners are unprepared for the challenges of keeping the animals.
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Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
There are racoons, snakes, spiders, scorpions, tarantulas and bees.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
One reason for their success is because raccoons are clever and adaptable.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2026
How are cicadas beneficial to the environment? During normal emergence years, cicadas provide predators with lots of food, including birds, foxes, skunks, and raccoons.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 13 Mar. 2026
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Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
There are racoons, snakes, spiders, scorpions, tarantulas and bees.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
One reason for their success is because raccoons are clever and adaptable.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2026
How are cicadas beneficial to the environment? During normal emergence years, cicadas provide predators with lots of food, including birds, foxes, skunks, and raccoons.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 13 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for raccoon
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As with brassicas, many pests target strawberries, but garlic’s aroma can keep rabbits, aphids, snails, and slugs at bay.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 Apr. 2026
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And so, under the cover of night, the two carnivores have been constantly at odds, racing for the right to hunt rabbits and squirrels, and for the space to dig a den to rear their young.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Ginger the beaver made a dam good leading lady.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
16 Apr. 2026
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In March 2023, the Beaver Trust revealed in a press release that the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA) took in Fig the beaver after someone found the animal with a gunshot wound on his face in the Perthshire area in January 2023.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
13 Apr. 2026
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Since 2005, Lake Katherine has been a refuge for migrating birds, beavers, muskrats, bald eagles, ospreys, turtles, and more.—
Mikayla Price,
CBS News,
3 Mar. 2026
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That includes foxes, minks, muskrats, otters, least weasels and bobcats.—
Austin Hornbostel,
Nashville Tennessean,
16 Oct. 2025
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In other words, as my grandmother (yes, her again) might have said, the lady really knew how to drag her mink.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
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That’s in part because the hat is made from a blend of 5% mink fur and 95% beaver fur, the latter of which is coveted for its natural ability to repel water, said company vice president and general manager Mark Dunlap.—
Maliya Ellis,
Houston Chronicle,
18 Mar. 2026
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Park staff are checking camera traps, wading out into the park's swampy wilderness and encouraging visitors to share any otter sightings.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
11 Feb. 2026
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But in the small starfish genus observed by Ricketts, an individual’s excision of his or her longest arm happens so slowly that an otter, turtle, or cannibal would probably vanquish anyway.—
Mandy-Suzanne Wong,
Longreads,
5 Feb. 2026
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These are specialized cartridges intended for shooting small, non-game animals that are essentially pests, including prairie dogs, ground squirrels, coyotes, foxes and rabbits, that are either a threat to agriculture or wildlife management, or are potentially dangerous.—
David Szondy
April 19,
New Atlas,
19 Apr. 2026
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Typically, foxes are not a serious issue for homeowners.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
16 Apr. 2026
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Otters are part of the weasel family (Mustelidae), which includes some of nature’s most ferocious pint-sized predators, such as badgers, martens, and wolverines.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
8 Apr. 2026
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Dachshunds are clever hunters, bred hundreds of years ago in Germany to sniff out badgers.—
Mindy Schauer,
Oc Register,
8 Apr. 2026
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What's more, the European Commission is planning to announce a decision on banning the holding and killing of mink, foxes, raccoon, dogs and chinchilla, and marketing of fur products from those animals, according to its website.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Feb. 2026
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As for that friendly neighborhood chinchilla?—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
22 Dec. 2025
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“Raccoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raccoon. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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