RACCOON

 Raccoon

Diet: Raccoons are omnivoresmeat eaters.They will eat almost anything like frogs, crayfish, birds, and mice.They eat a litte bit plants and crops. They also eat fruit and garbage.Raccoons sure do eat a lot.

Lifespan/Life cycle : Raccoons may live up to 14 years old. They mostly survive 7 years in the wild..

Hall, Michael. __raccoon123.jpg__. June 13, 2009. Pics4Learning. 21 Oct 2010  Habitat : The raccoon lives in New York State in the western part of New York state. They prefer swampy areas or woods near water. They can also live on the ground. And also very high from elevation. Very arid regions and preley coniferous forests.

Physical Characteristics; The length of a raccoon is 16 to 23 inches. The length of a raccoon's tail is 8 to 16 inches. The shoulder height is 9 to 12 inches. The raccoon weighs 4 to 26 pounds. Raccoons are soft, has light gray undercoat, and sharp non-retractile claws.



Evensen, Mary K., and Sydney Anders

http://www.jlindquist.com/JLHimages/raccoon.jpg  The raccoon is mostly nocturnal/solitary except for the mothers. Raccoons do something that not a lot of animals do, which is not hibernating in winter. the raccoon can become a nuisance if you supply them food then they'll keep coming back for more food. There is something weird that they do, which is to open their eyes about 3 weeks after they are born. This is unlike most animals because other animals open their eyes soon after they are born.
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 Raccoons get a lot of diseases. Something that most animals don't have for a defense is being protected by the law. You can only kill the raccoon if it damages your property. Like with most animals you can't possess it without a license for hunting it and trapping it.
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__Resources__:

"Raccoon." //Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia//. 2010. Grolier Online. 7 Oct. 2010 .

http://members.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/raccoon/Raccoonprintout.shtml

"Raccoons and Their Relatives." Reviewed by Cynthia Berger. //The New Book of Knowledge®//. 2010. Grolier Online. 8 Oct. 2010 <http://nbk.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?assetid=a2024590-h

Department of Enviromental Conservatioonhttp://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/9358.html