The biologists determined that city-dwelling North American raccoons (Procyon lotor) have snouts that are 3.5% shorter than ...

Something’s up with raccoons. Scientists have recently reported that those living in US cities have evolved much shorter ...

Although the family Procyonidae is largely a Neotropical group, the North American raccoon, Procyon lotor, is more versatile in its use of climate, and it is found in nearly every habitat from Panama ...

The gastrointestinal tracts of 310 steel-trapped or hunter shot Illinois raccoons (Procyon lotor) were collected in November and December 1979 and 1980 and examined for the presence of Baylisascaris ...

During a canine distemper virus (CDV) outbreak in raccoons (Procyon lotor) from Cook County, Illinois, a juvenile female suffering from seizures was killed and necropsied. Gross and histologic ...

Dikow, Rebecca B. 2020. [Dataset] Nucmer alignments and coordinate files used to generate dotplots from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos ...

Raccoons, Procyon lotor, confused scientists for a really long time. The first written record of the species – at least as far as the West was concerned – came as a result of Christopher Columbus’s ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we are meeting the ...

It has a conspicuous black mask, and the furred tail is marked with alternating black and gray rings. Raccoons occupy a variety of habitats but are mostly associated with aquatic areas. Raccoons are ...