Demographic responses of raccoons to varying exploitation rates

An extraordinary Raccoon, Procyon lotor, density at an urban park

“…The minimal potential density we observed for HTBSP ranks as one of the densest congregations of Raccoons recorded (see Riley et al 1998 for a range of Raccoon densities). Its Raccoon density was over 4 to 200 times as great as reported rural Raccoon densities (0.9-55.6/km7) (Mech et al 1968;Johnson 1970;Urban 1970;VanDruff 1971;Sonenshine and Winslow 1972;Lehman 1977*;Keeler 1978;Lehman 1980*;Orloff 1980*;Slate 1980*;Rabinowitz 1981;Jacobson 1982;Nottingham et al 1982;Lehman 1984%*;Moore and Kennedy 1985;Leberg and Kennedy 1988;Perry et al 1989;Hasbrouck 1991;Kennedy et al 1991;Hable et al 1992;Nixon et al 1993*). The high rural density of 250/km?…”