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Raccoons, Chinchilla, Shrews, & Badgers
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- If that footprint looks like the footprint of a miniature human being, it was probably made by a raccoon.
- Raccoons won't eat tomatoes (can't stand the acid).
- Raccoons wash their food in the nearest water before they eat it. They even go through the same washing motions when there's no water around.
- One raccoon in the wild needs about five acres to eke out a living.
- The chincilla's pelt is said to have more hairs per square inch than any other animal's skin.
- The fiercest animal for its size and weight is the shrew.
- The shrew is born blind, deaf, hairless, toothless, and no bigger than a shelled peanut.
- A shrew is nocturnal animal related to moles.
- A badger hole looks like hardly anything. But it may go deeply into the hillside and be inherited by many generations. Some badger dens have been known to last 100 years.
- Wisconsin is known as the Badger State but not because of the badgers! The lead miners working underground there a century ago were called badgers.
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