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.
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 :-)
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
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.
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 :-)