Older animals are usually surly and ill-tempered.- That can be a sentence in itself as well as the second part. Accordingly it is unwise to attempt to pet a grown raccoon. All the semicolon is doing is combining two sentences to make them one.
<span>A. strength and industriousness </span>
English: I wanted to go outside but it's too cold.
Spanish: Quería salir pero es demasiado frío.
The answer is The study of life
I believe the answer is D. The horrid brute shot stabbing flames from his blackened fingertips.