Raccoon
Procyon lotor
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Procyon lotor
- Class
- Mammal
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Procyonidae
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Size
- Small (under 1 m)
- Active
- By night
- Continent
- North America, Europe, Asia
- Habitat
- Forest, Towns and farms, Wetlands
- Conservation status
- Least concern
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- Much of the touch area of its brain serves the front paws, which feel their way under water.
- It was released in Germany in the 1930s and has since spread across much of Europe.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q121439 · All animals · All entries