Escaped or abandoned raccoons have been breeding in the wild for the past 20 years and have damaged corn crops, watermelon and melon farms, and rainbow trout hatcheries, the paper said.
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Raccoons, if they are abandoned, tend to damage things- this is what has been happening for the past 20 years.
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