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A Descriptive Study Of Forensic Implications Of Raccoon Scavenging In Maine, Ashley Hannigan
A Descriptive Study Of Forensic Implications Of Raccoon Scavenging In Maine, Ashley Hannigan
Honors College
This thesis is a case study of winter raccoon scavenging in Maine. The data used for my analysis came from a National Institute of Justice funded project on Regional Taphonomy done by Marcella Sorg from 2007 to 2012 (Sorg, 2013). I analyzed the photographic and videographic data from one pig cadaver site and identified raccoon scavenging “events.” This term is used to describe any period of time that one or more raccoons are scavenging. These events were then analyzed to investigate possible associations between scavenging behaviors and environmental variables, although none were positively identified. I adapted a method of describing …