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A national pest control company will provide opossums, rats, raccoons, and skunks from 10 cities.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 29, 2024
The constrictors have decimated native wildlife, including opossums, rabbits, rats, and foxes, with some suffering a decline of up to 99 percent, according to roadside surveys.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 11, 2023
Motion-activated sprinklers may deter the opossums and raccoons, but the rats and mice are too small to set them off.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
“Unlike gut piles, which are often peppered with bullet fragments, car-killed opossums and squirrels come lead-free, Whole Foods for the necrophagous set.”
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2023
But such rabbits or raccoons or opossums as may have roamed those bottomlands and perhaps never visited the farmers’ cornfields were doomed by a judge and jury who neither knew of their existence nor cared.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
