Mammals of Central America: Coyote, Cougar, White-Nosed Coati, Virginia Opossum, Raccoon, Oryzomys Couesi, List of Central American Mammals

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 91. Chapters: Coyote, Cougar, White-nosed Coati, Virginia Opossum, Raccoon, Oryzomys couesi, List of Central American mammals, White-tailed deer, Long-tailed Weasel, Mexican Free-tailed Bat, Nine-banded Armadillo, Ocelot, Giant Anteater, Brown-throated Sloth, Baird's Tapir, Eastern Cottontail, Island raccoon, Southern flying squirrel, Gray fox, Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth, Water Opossum, Silky Anteater, Mexican deer mouse, Common Opossum, Alston's Brown Mouse, Tamandua, Lowland Paca, Collared Peccary, Jamaican fruit bat, Southern Yellow Bat, Crab-eating Raccoon, Honduran white bat, White-lipped Peccary, Parnell's Mustached Bat, Aztec Mouse, Big-eared Woolly Bat, Northern Tamandua, Cacomistle, Yucatan Brown Brocket, Lesser Bulldog Bat, Lesser capybara, Furipteridae, Northern Naked-tailed Armadillo, Bushy-tailed Olingo, Alston's Mouse Opossum, Central American red brocket, Mexican Hairy Dwarf Porcupine, Hatt's Vesper Rat, Big-eared Climbing Rat, Gray Sac-winged Bat, Sumichrast's Harvest Mouse, Slender Harvest Mouse, Stirton's Deer Mouse, Crested-tailed Deermouse, Peters's Climbing Rat, Thomas's Water Mouse, Harris's Olingo, Broad-eared Bat, Chiriqui Olingo, Salvin's Spiny Pocket Mouse, Elegant Myotis. Excerpt: The raccoon (pronounced ( listen), Procyon lotor), sometimes spelled as racoon, also known as the common raccoon, North American raccoon, northern raccoon and colloquially as coon, is a medium-sized mammal native to North America. It is the largest of the procyonid family, having a body length of 40 to 70 cm (16 to 28 in) and a body weight of 3.5 to 9 kg (8 to 20 lb). The raccoon is usually nocturnal and is omnivorous, with a diet consisting of about 40% invertebrates, 33% plant foods, and 27% vertebrates. It has a grayish coat, of which almost 90% is dense underfur, which insulates against cold weather. Two of its most distinc...