The raccoon, commonly known as the North American raccoon, is a medium-sized carnivore native to North America and now spreading to much of Eurasia. Adult raccoons are 40–65 cm long and weigh 4–10 kg, with males slightly larger than females.
Raccoons look a bit like raccoons, and many people often confuse the two animals. The raccoon has a mixture of gray-brown coats and black eye spots on its face, like two eye masks, and is also known as the "masked thief" because the raccoon likes to break into the homes of residents to steal food.
The biggest difference between a raccoon and a raccoon is its tail and claws, the raccoon's tail has multiple black and white rings, the front paws are 5 fingers-shaped, and the flexibility is excellent, suitable for grasping, and even catching flying bugs, while the raccoon does not have these characteristics.
People's impression of raccoons has two extremes, influenced by film and television works, such as the "Rocket" character in "Guardians of the Galaxy", whose prototype is a raccoon, which has been liked by many people, thinking that raccoons are a very cute animal.
In North America, France, Denmark and other places where raccoons are "flooded", they have become the object of everyone's shouting, and no one will think that this animal is cute.
They would come to the homes of residents in droves at night and rummage around for food. Since raccoons are also a predator, if they have pets such as birds and kittens in the home, they will also become their prey objects, and even attack people.
4 raccoons tear up their master's tent to avenge themselves
According to the US "World Journal" report, in a Chinese family in Monterey Park City, Los Angeles County, South Carolina, there was an incident in which a raccoon retaliated against the owner's family and tore up the tent.
It was more than ten o'clock in the evening, and the hostess was in the courtyard with a water gun to water the flowers. By chance, she noticed something in the dark corner next to the pool, and when she fixed her eyes on it, it turned out to be some raccoons, and her eyes looked bright in the night.
The hostess approached to see, and one of them suddenly jumped up to startle her, and in a hurry, she quickly aimed the water gun in her hand at the raccoons and sprayed it. Attacked, the raccoons quickly left.
If you think these raccoons are gone, you're wrong, and the whole thing will be unremarkable and nothing to report.
To the surprise of the owner's family, a few minutes later, the raccoons reappeared, this time standing under the pomegranate tree, staring at the master's house in unison.
This unusual move of the little raccoon startled the hostess and rushed home. The hostess learned through the monitoring that there were a total of 4 raccoons that broke into the yard last night, and the situation was a family of four.
The next day, when I came to the yard to check, I found that the tents by the pool were all torn apart by them. The owner thinks that it may have been he who sprayed them with water last night, making the raccoons angry and tearing up the tent to avenge it.
Do animals take revenge?
We all know that people remember revenge and revenge, but can animals, like people, remember hatred and take revenge? In fact, it is quite possible.
I don't know if you have noticed that in some rescue of wild animals, people will use a cloth to cover the eyes of these animals, the reason for this is on the one hand because the blindfolding blocks the light, so that the anesthetized animals are not easy to wake up quickly because of the stimulation of light; On the other hand, it is for follow-up considerations, afraid that they will take revenge.
I believe that many shovelers feel that cats are not close to you after taking pet cats to be neutered, and even a little fierce, in fact, this is not an illusion, cats will indeed take revenge.
Tammy Miller, a veterinarian at the Big Cat Shelter near Tampa, knows this, who once treated a lion.
Perhaps because the lion smelled or saw it during the operation, when Tammy Miller returned to the lion after the operation, the lion showed a strong desire to attack, even trying to pounce on it through the cage. Before that, the lion had no feelings for Tammy Miller and had a very different attitude.
Relatively speaking, a tiger in Australia called "Indira" has also been treated by veterinarians. During the treatment, people learned their lessons, blindfolded the whole time, and did not give the tiger a chance to see the doctors. After the operation, the doctors returned to the tiger, and "Indira" showed no signs of abnormality.
Do animals retaliate?
Animals have acts of revenge, and there is no doubt that a group of monkeys in India proved to us.
At the end of 2021, a strange thing happened in a village in the Beid district of Maharashtra, India, that is, almost all the dogs in the village were slaughtered by a group of monkeys. In nearly a month, the village originally had more than 300 dogs, almost all of which were killed by monkeys.
They frantically stormed the village, slaughtering the dogs in the village by means of group beatings, hugging high places and falling to their deaths. And after the dogs are killed, the monkeys gradually point the spearhead at humans, and humans will be ruthlessly attacked by the monkeys when they intervene to stop them.
Why are these monkeys targeting these dogs? According to local villagers, it is likely to be related to a previous incident. At that time, a group of dogs in the village attacked a female monkey with cubs, and eventually outnumbered, the little monkey was bitten to death, and the mother monkey escaped with injuries.
Perhaps because of this incident, hatred was planted among the monkeys, and soon after, the monkeys, led by the Monkey King, stormed the village in a frenzy, taking revenge on all the dogs.
The Times of India has also reported that monkeys have taken revenge, saying that a village in Karnataka is flooded with monkeys, which seriously affects people's daily lives.
In order to solve this phenomenon, it was eventually decided to capture these monkeys and transport them to the forest 22 kilometers away for release. But soon after, some of the monkeys came back and found the driver who was transporting them at the time, and scratched the driver.
Judging from the performance of some animals in reality, it seems that they can really remember hatred and can also carry out acts of revenge. In life, we can often hear stories about animals retaliating against humans, the most common of which are gray magpies, eagles, wild elephants, etc.
From this point of view, it is not difficult to understand that after the 4 raccoons were sprayed with water, they tore up all the tents of the master's house.