Juvenile Raccoon
Highlands Hammock State Park, Sebring, Florida
We were leading Nancy’s high school camping club on a three-day outing. We took them on a short hike the first night after dinner. A mother raccoon and her four little ones were raiding the trash cans, but when we arrived they scurried up a nearby tree and peered at us from behind the branches. Nancy took a few pictures. As we moved on, the raccoons returned to the trash cans.
The raccoon (sometimes spelled "racoon"), a.k.a. common raccoon, northern raccoon, or North American raccoon, is found throughout most of North and Central America, and after a 2005 restructuring, there are now 22 subspecies, including four different island raccoons previously considered seperate species. This raccoon is most likely a Florida raccoon (Procyon lotor elucus) and is a medium-sized raccoon. The other four Floridian subspecies, from Florida keys (islands), namely the Key Vaca raccoon (P. l. auspicatus), Torch Key raccoon (P. l. incautus), Matecumbe Key raccoon (P. l. inesperatus), and Ten Thousand Islands raccoon (P. l. marinus), are the smallest of all of the subspecies.
There are only two other raccoon species in the world. The Cozumel raccoon (Procyon pygmaeus), endemic to that one island, survived the restructuring as a seperate species and is critically endangered. The crab-eating raccoon, a.k.a southern raccoon or South American raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), is common throughout South America (and southernmost Central America) east of the Andes and as far south as Argentina.
Raccoons are extremely clever. Their intelligence, memory, and learning speed are comparable to primates.
Photographic details: Canon EOS 20D camera w/ EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM lens set at 120mm. Flash was used. Camera was on f/4.5 for 1/60 sec at ISO 1600.
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