Where do you find the Raccoons?
The Raccoon (Procyon lotor) has a grey-brown coat, a tail ringed with black and a dark band across the face and eyes giving it the appearence of being masked. It is intelligent and be-sides being terrestrial, it is both aquatic and arboreal, being almost as much at home in the trees as a squirrel. It walks with its heels off the ground. It has the curious habit of apparently washing its food before eating, but this has only been seen in captivity. In the wild state, a Raccoon preys upon anything in farms, turning as readily to the orchards as to the chicken. It is still plentiful in many areas despite the fact that many of them are hunted. Raccoons are among the most completely nocturnal animals. They hibernate only in the most northerly part of their range, which covers North America upto Canada. The fur, known Coon. was once widely used by American frontiersmen and t 0 at sporadically returns to favour.
The Crabeating Raccoon is found in South America, chiefly on the east coast.
Coatis are South and Central American procyonids with very long snouts. The ring tailed Coati is red-brown and is confined to South America, while the Coatimundi is somewhat more northerly, ranging from Mexico to Peru. They walk with their long tails upright and climb easily to hunt for birds and lizards. They grub for insects and larvae with their noses and are easily bred in captivity but generally remain unfriendly and refractory.
