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The Common Raccoon, Procyon lotor, may be easily identified by its black face mask and bushy ringed tail. Raccoons have small rounded ears and white fur around the mask. Their fur is usually grayish, but may also be reddish and may even appear yellow when shedding.

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3. Adapted by Robin Foster from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procyon_lotor

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