They will eat fish, flesh, fowl, and vegetables.

They are fond of all kinds of berries and sweet fruits.
They "go crazed" after honey, climbing bee-trees and robbing the nests.
They dig for roots--such as groundnuts and prairie-turnips.

They lick up the larva of insects greedily, turning over great logs to get at them.

In the south they tear open the nests of turtles and alligators, and devour the eggs; and, where there are settlements, they steal into the fields and eat quantities of young corn and potatoes, making sad havoc with the crops.

They will devour pigs and other animals, eating their flesh--it might be said, alive--as they do not stop to kill them, but eat while tearing them to pieces.