The butterfly effect is a funny thing . You never know where one discovery will chair . Take the automobile : It vary the macrocosm , transforming cities and small towns . And it also head to raccoon leave America — and , mayhap , taking over Europe .
In the 1910s and 1920s , the machine was take off both as a practical invention and as a symbol of young person , freedom , and uprising . While it had many advantages , warmth was n’t one of them . The whistle wind and the lack of enclosure , along with the occasional crack-up due to unpaved road or faulty equipment , meant any number one wood had to wear thin ardent clothing . The mass who bought the first machine could have choose any coats they wanted , but being kids , of course chose the equivalent of ripped jeans , cowboy boots , or a beaten-up leather cap — the racoon - pelt coat .
Raccoons live everywhere in North America , and so their skins were pronto useable to trappers , traders , and citizenry on the frontier . The coats made from raccoon fur were tough and ardent , and had a certain approximate and ready quality , which appealed to a few auto driver . Then more machine drivers . Then everyone who desire to be like those cool untested automobile drivers .
These coat made the hop across the Atlantic , and a few animals did as well . German pelt manufacturers begin pelt farm — but it was in everyone ’s best sake to keep the raccoons contained . Then , in 1934 , a German hunter named Rolf Haag had the brilliant mind that Germany should also cash in in on the fun of hunting raccoons for their coats . This being an dead different time , Haag oversee to convince a forestry official to go along with his plan . He release four raccoons into the wild .
Now there are roughly a million raccoon in Germany . They live in suburbs . They go in metropolis . They live in forests . They ’re begin to populate in the country neighboring Germany . They ’ve evenbeen spottedin England and Spain . At this point , functionary have no way to eliminate or even contain them . They ’re a dissemble plague rampaging uncurbed in the countryside . And why ? Because of the flapper and the Model T and the outlandishness of the globe .
[ Source : Feral Cities , by Tristan Donovan ]
Animals
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