They're on the rise:
In some areas, urban raccoons and coyotes have higher survival rates than their rural counterparts. One team found seven times more coyotes per square kilometer in urban parts of southern California than rural areas, and raccoons have reached an "astonishing" 333 animals per square kilometer in one Fort Lauderdale, Florida park, about four to 400 times their density in the countryside. … The recent rise in urban carnivores "may mark the future for the coexistence of carnivores with man," the authors write.
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