In reading about any animal's feeding patterns, we discover quickly that there are very few animals that have only one source of food. Raccoons, for example, are omnivores. The word omnivore means an animal that eats both plants and other animals.
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.