Raccoons eat whatever foods are available. During a single night of hunting,a raccoon might swallow a grasshopper, eat berries from a bush, search the creek bottom for a crayfish, and even kill a mouse. The fisher, a large member of the weasel family, eats a wide variety of small mammals such as squirrels, chipmunks, mice, and voles. Porcupines and snowshoe hares are the fisher's preferred prey. Carnivores or meat eaters only eat other animals.
Carnivores prey usually on a variety of different animals within their habitat.
The mountain lion prefers to kill large animals such as deer and elk. These large prey animals provide an adult mountain lion with food for a number of days. Often these large prey animals are difficult to find and kill. A hungry mountain lion kills such animals as raccoons, rabbits, porcupines and even coyotes if it surprises them. Herbivores, or plant eaters, also consume a wide variety of foods.