Wild animals live in attics because it's great habitat. Attics are generally warm, dry, safe, and protected from the elements. Attics are often in close proximity to the food sources of urbanized animals - garbage cans, pet food, and other human-influenced food sources. An attic is like...
A raccoon's fingers are almost as nimble as a monkey's and they aid this creature in opening trash cans and boxes, and in disassembling building structures in order to find habitat. They are most active at night, seeking refuge during the daylights hours in hollow trees, dense vegetation, ...
The calculated total home range areas were plotted on a habitat map (CLC2000, European Envir- onment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark) in a geographic information system (ArcGIS 10, Esri, Redlands, CA) to as- sess the relative importance of each habitat type during winter. Habitat selection was ...
Area of watercourses, urban grass area fragmentation, urban tree area fragmentation, distance to waterways, and road density had no significant effects on raccoon dog habitat selection (<0.1 model weight; Table 2). In RAC model, the species-environment associations were similar (Fig. 5), but ...
The animals were provided by hunters (A), who killed the animals as part of regular hunting practice in accordance with national hunting laws, or (B), who found them dead in their habitat. The killing of these animals did not require authorisation by an internal animal care and use ...