They look as if they
stepped out of The Walking Dead.
That's just scary.
A coyote blaring its teeth.
Oh my God!
Crazed looking foxes,
and raccoons going insane.
(raccoon growling)
We have one of those raccoons
in our yard.
Those zombie ones.
Yes, she really said zombie.
People all over the United States
are reporting seeing them.
These ragged coyotes look like they
crawled out of a grave.
But they really have mange that makes
their hair fall out.
It was like a Walking Dead type of thing.
Joe Evans came face to face
with this scary looking raccoon
when in his backyard.
The thing looked possessed.
It's hissing and it's showing its teeth.
Rather than being scared of me
it was like provoking a fight.
Tara Smith is a professor of
epidemiology at Kent State University in Ohio.
She says these scary looking animals
have either distemper or rabies.
Rabies is 100% fatal in humans if it is
not treated before symptoms appear.
They're drooling.
They seem that they can't control
their bodily movements.
So it's difficult to watch.
A rabid coyote just took a bite
out of this five year old girl in
Westchester County, New York.
I didn't scream.
I didn't panic.
It was coming through the baseball field.
The gate was opened and it was
running like a cheetah.
The off-duty cop who came to her aid
has also been given the rabies shots.
It hurts a little bit,
but I do feel a little better.
Good boy.
Photographer Robert Coggeshall and
his beagles were chased indoors by this raccoon.
He took dozens of images of the menacing animal.
If he'd be on his hind legs,
and then suddenly he would just
fall over backwards and he would be
in a zombie trance.
It happens to foxes as well.
He's confused.
He's baring his teeth.
He doesn't know quite what he's doing,
and he looks like a zombie.
They should not be approaching this animal.
So the next time you see
an animal like this,
remember,
it's not really The Walking Dead,
but keep your distance,
they could be deadly.
This is a wild animal infected
with a disease.
So,
they're unpredictable,
you don't know what they're going to do.
You could end up with a fatal infection.
