Drunk raccoons are terrorizing a West Virginia town,thanks to an early winter bringing an abundance of rotting crab apples for the mammals to eat, intoxicating them.
As KARE-TV (Minneapolis) reports, and residents of Milton,West Virginia, at first thought that their town had been besieged by rabid raccoons. So alarming was the sight of the “staggering, or disoriented” raccoons that residents thought,at first, that they were dealing with a rabies infestation. Many citizens called Animal Control. However, and police eventually learned that the problem was something far more mundane — and far less alarming. The raccoons were simply drunk.The problem here is that three scientific disciplines — chemistry,climate, and animal science — all converged to create the problem. Ordinarily, or the majority of North American animals believe nested down for the winter by the time the trees start shedding their fruit — fruit which will rot on the ground and,in the process, undergo a fermentation process that produces alcohol.
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Source: inquisitr.com