PieFedRaccoon invasion of Germany
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Who the fuck brought raccoons to germany
e8d79Wikipedia has some info about that.
An important event for the spread of the raccoon in Europe was the release of two pairs of raccoons on April 12, 1934 at Lake Edersee in Hesse. Four raccoons were released into the wild by forester *Wilhelm Sittich Freiherr von Berlepsch* at the request of the owner, poultry farmer *Rolf Haag*. The idea was that the released animals should enrich the local fauna and save the fur industry expensive imports.
kijetesantakalu li wawa!
Correlation map with AfD votes next?
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That would solve so many issues. Then they would actually be as cute as they look.
Maybe we can train them
Nazicoons are plotting
maybe it's just inverse population density map
Inverse population density maps correlate often with how well the AfD performs in elections and polls.
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).
I love the unit, R/ha.
We can do better than 0.1 R/ha though? What's the R/ha of other countries?
1 deciracoon per hectare.
10 milliracoons (mR) per m²10µR/m² (micro raccoons) or 0.01 mR/m² (milliracoons)
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
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.
Europe brings rats to invade de sewers, America counterattacks by sending trash pandas
So they dug out the Klapstuhl? (Only germans understand this reference)
Müllpandablitz
The fuckers reached Belgium by 2023… Those pests are everywhere and wrecking havoc both in suburbs and rural areas.
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.
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
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.
I'm a bit confused. Every German supermarket has peanut butter. Most multiple kinds, like with or without crunch, certified organic, with cottonseed oil, etc.. Did you have a different experience?
Maybe the person only went to discounters? They indeed have a reduced sortiment.
possible, but at least the discounters lidl and aldi have peanut butter
Peanut butter is everywhere.
It is available, but unlike in the US it is not something you would find in almost every household. And I would bet you it would be easier to find an individual who hasn't tried peanut butter even once than finding someone who has.
What are you talking about, peanut butter is available everywhere in Germany.
Fuckers do a better job than Russia.
They still pale in comparasion to Putin's oligarchs.
I'm on team raccoon here I don't see the problem
RaccAttack
(it's a Twitch emote, called RaccAttack)
Yesssss. Invade us harder! Racoons for everyone!
I love those cute Lil trashpandas 😍
Procyon lotor are only native to North America and are listed as an invasive species in the EU.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon#Distribution_in_Germany
Don't care about the exact species. The ones i know from here (We drive 2h to the only place where i ever learned they exist) are fucking cute and i adore them. I also don't care what the EU labels them, we are the worst invasive species of them all and noone cares :-)
Everybody loves raccoons, the animal embodiment of one’s indomitable, anarchic trash-goblin spirit!
(5 seconds later) We regret to inform you that the presence of raccoons in Europe is a legacy of Hitler
That might not be as far from the truth as you might think. In 1945, a few individuals escaped a pelt farm (fuck humans) near Berlin due to an unknown cause and some hypothesize a bomb dropped during an air raid could have destroyed an enclosure.
IIRC, encouraging raccoon farming was a specific NSDAP policy, and may have started in the Nazi era.
They are cute, but they're just bloodthisty toddler-sized hobos. They prey on small dogs and cats or fight them for territory, they eat chickens, they destroy fucking everything, and they can carry and spread rabies. They will rip up plants, tear siding off your house, pull up paving stones, and even break windows. Just imagine a hostile drifter on your property trying to fuck it up as hard as possible out of spite for you, and that's about right.
We don't put 'siding' on our houses so that'll be fine, not looking forward to rabies tho :(
We do have foxes with rabies already, and wild boars plowing up lawns and flower beds
It's very common for continental European houses to have lap siding of some kind. Homes built according to modern trends are not the only kind of home there is.
They couldn't enter here, would've got to climb some pretty high walls first :)
But i get your point. So it's like living in a very bad neighborhood just that the invaders and house-fuckers are fucking cute.
Yet we drive 2h regularly to pet them in a tiny spot where they live. So it's nowhere near your situation. Up to discovering that spot we didn't even think they'd live here at all.
Raccoons can climb sheer walls. Anything they can grip with their claws, they can climb.
If they'd manage to climb these 8m walls, I'd be impressed and feed them their favorite food as a reward 😁
Man when my first kid was little those fuckers would get into our trash all the time. You know how much fun it is cleaning ripped-up dirty diapers off your front yard?
Anyway I whipped up some pepper spray and poured it all over the can. They never came back. Worked a lot better than shooting them with bb guns.
Yuk, i would find the diapers disgusting even before they're in the trash :-)
They couldn't reach our trash, so that would not be a problem. Also between our current situation of population (they live here? at all? WOW!) and yours are many decades. So i might enjoy the way towards your situation :)
They're fun as long as they're not out to get you. I love the little anarchists but please stay out of my shit thanks ;D
Generally, you won't encounter them much unless you're near available food at night. If they do start showing up, film em, they're entertaining.
I guess it would take a looong time before they'd ever show up here at my doorstep. I live in a city, not rural.
But i fucking would film them, i have surveillance cameras all around anyway :)
And yeah i probably wouldn't love them fucking my trash up, but i also couldn't be mad at them. It's our fault they're here, i can't judge or hate them for that.
Speaking as an American, you won't be saying that once they invade your attic. Trust me, you do not want this.
Couldn't be mad at them for trying, can't lie here :)
There's a joke there about German attics, but I'm not a good enough comedian to make that without it being horribly offensive... So I won't.
Pretty sure I don't know about that
Is it in the same kind as with Austrian cellars?
Well, the map shows them working their way towards Poland . . .
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.