RACCOONS: ADORABLE TINY HANDS AND QUESTIONABLE INTENTIONS

There are few creatures quite as charming—or as suspiciously competent—as the raccoon.With its black mask, ringed tail and remarkably nimble front paws, the northern raccoon, Procyon lotor, looks rather like a small bear dressed for a burglary. This is misleading. Raccoons are not bears, although they belong to the same broad branch of the carnivore family tree. Their closest living