Tag: Raccoons

The thrilling call of a raccoon invading an MLS game might be the most epic of 2024

“THIS IS MARVELOUS ENTERTAINMENT! COME ON RACCOON!”

The Philadelphia Union and New York FC were some 20minutes into their game in the City of Brotherly Love, when a pitch invader halted play.

It wasn’t a human! It was a raccoon! And what’s more, it took nearly two minutes to capture the critter.

The best part of all this is the announcer calling the game on Apple TV was Callum Williams, and his epic call with Calen Carr was just the best, as he called it “marvelous entertainment” and rooted on the raccoon to keep going. It reminded us of when Kevin Harlan does play-by-play of field invaders.

Check this call out!

Raccoon fight caught on home trail camera; ‘not a usual occurrence’

A Colorado woman who monitors nocturnal wildlife activity with trail cameras on Saturday shared footage of two raccoons fighting near a water station.

A Colorado woman who monitors nocturnal wildlife activity with trail cameras on Saturday shared footage of two raccoons fighting near a water station.

“When good raccoons go bad,” Camera Trap Sue, who lives in Hartsel, joked via X. “This isn’t a usual occurrence in the garden, typically they all get along just fine but every once in a while this happens.”

The footage shows one raccoon emerging from the darkness to launch a frontal attack against the raccoon at the water station, and a second attack by the same raccoon from the rear.

The animals do not appear to have been injured.

Raccoons are the stars of Sue’s X account. At times they’re shown passing swiftly past the camera in such numbers that she has dubbed the passageway the “Racoonobahn.”

Earlier Sunday, Sue shared footage showing 30-plus raccoons “toing and froing” along the Raccoonobahn at a time when the temperature was 1 degree Fahrenheit.

The raccoons’ antics – and those of other critters – are so entertaining that Sue has garnered more than 13,000 followers.

Bobcat shown stalking raccoons in surreal nighttime footage

A trail camera in Colorado has captured footage showing a large bobcat hunting raccoons at night in a narrow passageway.

A trail camera in suburban Colorado has captured footage of a large bobcat stalking raccoons at night in a narrow passageway.

“Raccoons are some of a bobcat’s favorite meals, due to their small size and lack of an effective defense system,” Twitter user Suzanne Dickerson explained in her video description.

At 13 seconds, before the bobcat saunters into view, the nearest raccoon scurries forward as if trying to escape the threat. (Footage of the raccoons is shown at four times the normal speed; the bobcat is shown at normal speed.)

Dickerson routinely tweets footage of raccoons and other critters passing through this area, which she refers to as the Racoonobahn.

Asked by a follower how many raccoons use the Racoonobahn, Dickerson answered: “I’m guessing we have 10-13 raccoons around here based on different cameras. Some or all use the Raccoonobahn each evening.”

Her pinned tweet shows a skunk using a rock to break ice in a water bowl to access water below the ice. Images from that sequence were used in a scientific paper about tool-use by striped skunks.

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Watch: Raccoon scares ‘living mess’ out of man throwing away trash

A man ready to leave for work stopped by the trashcan in the driveway to throw away garbage and got quite a fright when he opened the lid.

In the early morning hours, a man preparing to leave for work in Plano, Texas, stopped by the trashcan in the driveway to throw away garbage and got quite a fright when he opened the lid.

A Ring camera captured the surprising moment with the footage first showing raccoons rummaging in and around the trashcan. Something spooks the animals and they flee, leaving one of their own trapped in the trashcan.

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A little while later, the video cuts to the man closing the gate and heading to the trashcan to dispose of a cup. And, well, you can guess what happens next.

“As soon as I lifted the lid of the garbage can, a stowaway raccoon was waiting on me to free him,” the man told ViralHog. “It scared the living mess out of me, and I may have or may not have screamed just a little bit.”

The footage was captured on Oct. 31 but was just posted on ViralHog on Wednesday.

Photo courtesy of ViralHog.

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14 raccoons confront father and son ‘like out of a movie’

A father and son in a S.F. park were confronted by a pack of raccoons in an encounter described as “surreal” and “like out of a movie.”

While walking their dog in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Marc Estoque and his son were confronted by a pack of raccoons in an encounter he described as “surreal” and “like out of a movie.”

They were on a trail next to North Lake near 43rd Ave. and Fulton last week when the animals started coming out of the bushes alongside the trail, as reported by SFGate.

In a photo Estoque took, 10 raccoons stare at his son while four others hang out in the bushes.

“We were both a little shocked,” Estoque told NBC Bay Area.

“It was so surreal…a posse of bandits…like out of a movie,” Estoque told SFGate. “And then two minutes later there was a coyote. I was waiting for the unicorn to pop out.”

Matthew Schweitzer, a San Francisco City College professor specializing in urban wildlife, told NBC the raccoons are likely becoming accustomed to humans and that it’s not unusual for the animals to travel in packs and start begging for food.

People have been warned against feeding the animals but wildlife ecologist Jonathan Young knows people still do.

“I’ve seen it first hand in that area and people were feeding them in broad daylight,” Young told SFGate. “And there were at least this many people huddled around that person. It’s not good. It’s really bad.”

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The raccoons can be aggressive. There have been reports of attacks, and Young’s colleague recently was bitten by one on her patio.

“Unfortunately, it’s a big problem in San Francisco,” Amy Corso of S.F.’s Animal Care and Control told SFGate. “Feeding wildlife alters their behavior and can cause lots of problems. Animals that are fed by people become dependent on human food and may lose their natural fear of humans and their ability to forage for natural foods.

“There’s a saying, ‘Fed wildlife is dead wildlife.'”

As for Estoque, he told NBC, “I think we’re going to be a little cautious going down there again.”

Photo courtesy of Marc Estoque.