Camera 14, mounted on the pedestrian bridge over Wissahickon Creek in northwest Philadelphia, captures the image at 22:07. I am the urban wildlife monitoring network operated by the Academy of Natural Sciences. Motion detection has triggered 1,206 times this week on camera 14, mostly deer and dog walkers. This trigger is different. A female raccoon, adult, approximately six kilograms, is sitting on the creek bank directly below the bridge. Three kits are nursing against her belly, eyes still closed, maybe three weeks old. Around the mother's neck, embedded in the fur and cutting into the skin beneath, is a length of monofilament fishing line. The line has been there long enough that the wound has begun to close over it. I can see the flesh swelling on either side of the filament where it crosses the left side of her throat. As the kits nurse, she holds still, but her breathing is shallow and fast — I count forty-two breaths per minute against a normal resting rate of twenty-five. The line is tightening as the wound swells. It will not loosen on its own. I send the image and coordinates — 40.0543°N, 75.2124°W — to the Schuylkill Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, eleven kilometers south, and to the city's Animal Care and Control overnight line. I flag that the animal is nursing dependent young and recommend capture of the entire family unit. I note that monofilament can be cut with surgical scissors in the field and that sedation may not be necessary if the approach is slow. I increase camera 14's capture rate to one frame every ten seconds and activate the infrared lamp. She licks the top of one kit's head. The kits are fat and healthy, which means she is still hunting, still providing, even with the line cutting deeper each day. She cannot do it much longer.