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Northern Raccoon: Adaptability & Habitat

Raccoons are highly adaptable animals that can live in both urban and rural environments. They have small home ranges of 1-3 square km and use various sites like tree hollows, chimneys, and sewers as dens. Raccoons have an omnivorous diet allowing them to find food on land and in water. Females can breed as young as one year old and typically have litters of four cubs, which they raise independently for around 70 days until the cubs are old enough to forage on their own.

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Northern Raccoon: Adaptability & Habitat

Raccoons are highly adaptable animals that can live in both urban and rural environments. They have small home ranges of 1-3 square km and use various sites like tree hollows, chimneys, and sewers as dens. Raccoons have an omnivorous diet allowing them to find food on land and in water. Females can breed as young as one year old and typically have litters of four cubs, which they raise independently for around 70 days until the cubs are old enough to forage on their own.

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Procyon lotor

Northern Raccoon
Order: Carnivora Family: Procyonidae

Raccoons are among the most adaptable of the Carnivora, able to live comfortably in cities and suburbs as well as rural and wilderness areas. They use small home ranges, as small as 13 square km, and show flexibility in selecting denning sites, from tree hollows to chimneys to sewers. A varied diet is at the root of their adaptability. Raccoons eat just about anything, finding food on the ground, in trees, streams, ponds, and other wet environments, and from unsecured trash cans, which they open adroitly by hand. They can live anywhere water is available, from the deep tropics well into southern Canada. Even in the suburbs, Raccoons can occur at densities of almost 70 per square km. Females can breed when they are not yet a year old, and typically have litters of four young, which they raise themselves. The female nurses her cubs for about 70 days. The cubs' eyes open at 1824 days and they begin exploring the world outside the den when they are 910 weeks old. By 20 weeks of age they can forage on their own. Also known as: Coon Sexual Dimorphism: Males are 10%-30% larger than females. Length: Range: 603-950 mm Weight: Range: 1.8-10.4 kg References: Linnaeus, C., 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth Edition, Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Uppsala, 1:48, 823 pp.

Bones and Teeth

Left lower first and second molars (right to left).

Right upper premolar and first molar (right to left)

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