Central Park Raccoon

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Central Park raccoon, Procyon lotor.

I dipped inside my almost-too-cute-for-words file to present you with this image of a critter I found foraging with its Mother and sibling in Central Park's Ramble one evening. I bet you find it as irresistible as I do.

Image: Bob Levy, author of Club George. [larger].

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That's cool! I spend huge amounts of time in the Park, but I have never seen a raccoon.

By PhysioProf (not verified) on 01 Sep 2007 #permalink

I once saw a raccoon out in Forest Hills -- it popped out of some bushes ahead of me to cross the sidewalk and drink from the gutter, but retreated as I came up the sidewalk toward it.

Of course, not too far from that spot, I once found an octopus on the sidewalk! (One of the little ones, quite dead. I suspect it escaped from somebody's dinner supplies, only to find itself on a "concrete desert".)

By David Harmon (not verified) on 01 Sep 2007 #permalink