You’re right. Thanks.
Could you please tell me more about that? What kind of fence keeps a racoon out? I believe they are good climbers. What deterrs a racoon? No, I am not allowed to use a gun of any kind here. I need a fence that keeps racoons and wild boar out. I wonder whether it will have to be an electric one.
Are those two racoons?
I think they are.
Are those beavers?
I would like them to be. Sorry, my camera is not good enough in the dark, seting it up is still hit and miss. Still practising. 
In my experience fencing, unless electric, doesn’t faze them at all.
They’ve dug under my electric bunny fence around my garden. Ate all my tomatoes one year. I raised the fire power on the fence because of the feral hogs. That’s worked for a few seasons.
Dillon the villain has a kennel with a top, in side the barn. With a locking gate. They figured out how to unlock it, let the dog out and eat his food. They kept it up til they found Mr Wreks stash of dogfood. It’s inside a large wooden box that has a heavy lid. Rats started a small hole and they expanded it, stick they’re cute widdle hands in and pull out food by the gallons.
They are clever, cunning theives. Will steal food out of your hand, if they could figure out how.
As I posted upthread, my Dad kept them out of his sweet corn with a 2-strand electric fence. As I recall, the lower strand (just plain wire) was about five inches off the ground. The higher strand was about six inches above the lower wire. One shock seemed to keep them away.
No. I do know what you’re talking about because some studies present it that way. But that’s not what I am referring too.
My jurisdiction has some moderately wooded areas. We get bulletins from the Dept of Natural Resources once or twice per year. We have to sign off that we read them. They had rabies estimations per species and it is not based on the factoring you mention. It’s based on estimates of the entire population of each species plus observations of rabies per species such as animals trapped, killed, or just found dead and testing positive for rabies.
From the last bulletin we got in September:
Skunks are always #1 with an estimate of 38% of all skunks being rabid.
Racoons are #2 at 35%.
Foxes are at 8%.
Deer very rarely get rabies but they can. In the last 30+ years only about 100 were found infected.
Smaller animals like rabbits, squirrels, mice and rats almost never get rabies. They are able to get away from an aggressive animal and if they are bit the bite itself usually kills them before the infection takes place.
Bats are a special case. Only approximately 2% of all bats are rabid. But there are billions of bats in the world. So while the percentage is low the actual number of infected bats is quite high. Most rabies transmissions to humans comes from bats. They have small yet sharp teeth and are able to bite humans without being noticed.
Possums rarely have rabies. Something to do with their body temperature. Plus they are so god damn ugly that even a rabid animal isn’t crazy enough to want to go near one.
Yes, they’re thieves and trespassers. Their bandit looking face is definitely well deserved.
The problem is that if rabies is very common in a population, the likelihood an individual sick/dead animal that hasn’t bitten a human is tested decreases.
Bites from skunks, racoons, etc aren’t that common in the first place.
Strong disagree.
Does cooking kill the virus?
Cooking does not “kill” prions, which is a concern. But yes, cooking kills rabies virus. However if you are gutting an infected deer that is where exposure and infection would likely occur. Wear gloves!!
Possums is purty!! 
Your cite seems to involve everything except wooly mamoths. And appears to include pets.
750 skunk bites in a country of 350 million is miniscule. It’s only 15 per state per year on average. Wouldn’t call that “common”. Especially when you consider how many people are biten by both rabid and non-rabid dogs per year.
Do you ever watch monkey videos on YouTube? Macaques will literally pull food out of a smaller or lower-ranking monkey’s mouth and eat it themselves, or even do it with their babies after they’re on solid food.
Are skunks and raccoons immune from rabies, even though they can transmit it? If they aren’t, that would mean that rabies would probably be their #1 cause of death - and perhaps the DNR’s figures are from animals they have captured, who might be sick anyway?
They die from it all the time. And watching one with it is frightening.
The numbers do include those trapped and those found dead or killed from other means.
If you come across a rabid animal the humane thing to do is to dispatch it as soon as safely possible.
Oh hell no, it kills them. And yes, it is a leading cause of death for them, even in places where they are much less likely to catch it than where pkbites lives. (Apparently most of the country, per the link i posted upthread.)