I went for a walk at lunchtime the other day up the valley where a French fellow and his wife are building a new house (very international we are here), when I came upon this grisly scene.
It's a
tanuki with a smallish hole in its rump (it probably felt like a largish hole to the tanuki in question).
The question is, whodunnit? There are certainly hunters around here because I've seen them with their guns, but I don't think they'd shoot a tanuki, nor would they leave it lying dead on a pavement. Would a boar be able to gore a tanuki, and would it have reason to do that? The corpse was gone the following day.
It's a tanuki with a smallish hole in its rump (it probably felt like a largish hole to the tanuki in question).
The question is, whodunnit? There are certainly hunters around here because I've seen them with their guns, but I don't think they'd shoot a tanuki, nor would they leave it lying dead on a pavement. Would a boar be able to gore a tanuki, and would it have reason to do that? The corpse was gone the following day.
2 comments:
It looks like a raccoon here in the states. Is it similar? poor guy. I never did build the bamboo fence.
Happy new year, Jacqueline Schick
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They're actually called 'raccoon dog' in English (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon_Dog), but they're quite different. I sometimes see them around at night when I go out on my bike. They're pretty cute.
I was wondering what happened with your fence. Thanks for the update!
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