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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

kijetesantakalu li wawa!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm on team raccoon here I don't see the problem

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

TIL. I was confused because I thought raccoons were an American thing. It turns out the Nazis imported them for furs, and some escaped. Now Germany has a bunch of Raccoons.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The black spaces on the 2020 map kinda look like a rabbit. Geez, you'd think they'd invade in a pattern that resembles a raccoon. SMH

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

I thought that this number seemed not so big, but that my perception might be skewed due to the chosen scale and an inability to imagine an process how big the depicted areas are, so I looked up the development of raccoon population in Germany (I read the german Wikipedia).

So, first of all, one of the major relevant incidents was pure greed. A poultry breeder released a couple of raccoons into the wild so that they would populate the area and pelt prices could go down because expensive imports would become unnecessary. I hate humans, especially the rich ones.

Second, according to a publication from 2011, at that time the population of raccoons in Germany size was estimated to be around half a million individuals and that each year, 300k animals would have to be killed if the population sized was to be reduced with a lasting effect. Although, that might not be enough, as research shows, after a 2007 distemper epidemic killed 80% of the female raccoon population in Müritz National Park, the year after more raccoons were counted than before the outbreak.

Third, we need the wolf back. As shown by the example before, raccoon populations are extremely resilient and also in north american raccoon populations hunting shows to be not only not a major cause of death, it was insignificant. In Germany, the lack of natural predators like the wolf is benefitting the expansion of some invasive species like raccoons, american minks or raccoon dogs (who are not raccoons) and also has an influence of growing populations of native species into overpopulations. Hunting and roadkill incidents alone shows to be not effective enough (at least in areas that are not destroyed habitats due to human expansion).

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Olaf Scholz fighting a mysterious urge to get a pistol and a cyanide capsule and wander into the basement. Those who ignore history are doomed etc etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The racoon wars are no joke. Lost my brother to the raccoons in a op gone bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fuckers do a better job than Russia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

They still pale in comparasion to Putin's oligarchs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

The fuckers reached Belgium by 2023… Those pests are everywhere and wrecking havoc both in suburbs and rural areas.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s always fascinating to learn of the little differences. Lack of peanut butter. And, apparently, a lack of trash pandas patrolling your trash bins, until now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

What are you talking about, peanut butter is available everywhere in Germany.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So I live in one of the barely-still-gray areas from 2020. I.e. we're obviously colonized by now. And the neighbors now refuse to clean up the garage because they might disturb the gworing family of raccoons living within. And we obviously can't force them to do anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it because they claim they don’t own them? I assumed ownership of various invasive species like raccoons was banned EU-wide.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The raccoons aren't pets, if that's what you're asking, they moved into a disorderly garage out of their own volition. As to why the neighbors fail to clean up now, I don't really know. There's some contrived argumentation, but I think they simply don't want to.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Müllpandablitz

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm puzzled by how a hectare can be determined to have 0.1 raccoons in it, like is it part of a 10 hectare region with a single 'coon or is the animal migratory and spends a tenth of its time in that particular hectare?

Anyhow raccoons are great when they're screaming bloody murder at each other at night, and also when they amble up to you curiously during the day. Sorry they are competing with Germany's, what, native badger population? What is the raccoon niche equivalent over there

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

You mean, is the racoon transtemporal or transdimensional...

...i put it to you that there's only ever been a single racoon in Germany, it's just very fast.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably the original data was per sqkm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh okay yeah that makes sense

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