Word: raccoon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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State health department officials are monitoring a rabies epidemic which is spreading throughout the state's raccoon population, afflicting many of the animals and posing a threat to humans...
...disease, which has migrated northward from the Appalachian Mountains, has been confirmed in raccoon populations in nearly 90 percent on Massachusetts towns in the past year, according to state disease control records...
Because the disease kills ailing animals within one week, the Boston area's raccoon population has declined by as much as 80 percent recently, Landry said. But there is little danger that the species will become extinct, she said...
...know an autobiography is in trouble when its best chapter -- funny, intimate, emotionally engaged -- is about the pet raccoon the author loved and lost decades ago. You know a biography is in trouble when sentences like this start popping up: "From the comfort of his foreplay to his gentle whispers, he gave something that was almost at one with female consciousness." Could we see a footnote on that...
...laws to prosecute poachers in national parks, but state statutes vary notoriously. Wyoming, for instance, regulates hunters down to the number of shotgun pellets allowed in heavily hunted areas; while Alabama's idiosyncratic "coon on a log" law is more liberal, permitting the maintenance of up to 10 captured raccoons during a season for use in demonstrating "the abilities of the raccoon to resist being retrieved or taken from a log in a lake by a dog and the ability of the respective dogs to retrieve raccoons...