Food Habits of the Raccoon in Eastern Iowa
1940; Wiley; Volume: 4; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3796007
ISSN1937-2817
Autores Tópico(s)Turfgrass Adaptation and Management
Resumotion of grains-a type of farming wellsuited to the food requirements of the raccoon. Corn, especially, is known to be one of the most important of raccoon foods. The seats were found in a number of places but for the most part were picked up on the higher ledges and rims of the bluffs where a large part of the defecation apparently occurred. Fully 77 per cent of the scats were found associated with these rocky prominences. Only 17.5 per cent were picked up along the streams, at the bases of trees, or on logs or piles of brush and other debris. Occasionally seats were dropped in pastures, woods, or dirt roads. Such promiscuous defecation seemed more prevalent in the spring and early in summer than later in the year and probably accounts to a certain extent for the smaller number of seats collected during the earlier months. Several of the fecal samples were taken from the passages of abandoned lead mines. These tunnels undermine several 1 Journal paper No. J 735 of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station. Project No. 566. Iowa State College, Iowa State Conservation Commission, and American Wildlife Institute cooperating with the U. S. Biological Survey--a modification of thesis material presented to the graduate faculty of Iowa State College in compliance with the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. 2 Grateful acknowledgment is made of supervision by Dr. G. O. Hendrickson, Iowa State College, and T. G. Scott, U. S. Biological Survey.
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