I have been seeing a lot of young raccoons this past few weeks but I have been having troubles getting photos of them because of not having enough light. You don’t see them very often moving around in the daylight hours.
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It seems like this green stuff is worse this year in the creeks and lakes. I have been camping the past few days in eastern Oklahoma and have noticed more of it around here. The third photo is of three baby raccoons that were feeding. I was not able to get a good photo because [...]
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I have been seeing raccoons on just about every trip I take to the Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge.
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I can count on seeing theses two raccoons just about every trip I take to the Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma. If you look real close you can see that one of the raccoons has a bad eye. They both take turns feeding in this one pool of water, but never at the same [...]
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The most important sense for the raccoon is its sense of touch. The “hyper sensitive” front paws are protected by a thin horny layer which becomes pliable when wet. The five digits of the paws have no webbing between them, which is unusual for a carnivoran. Almost two-thirds of the area responsible for sensory perception [...]
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Though usually nocturnal, the raccoon is sometimes active in daylight to take advantage of available food sources. Its diet consists of about 40% invertebrates, 33% plant material and 27% vertebrates.
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