Health department officials are warning those in Alexandria after two people were bitten by a possibly rabid raccoon in Old Town on Tuesday. According to the Alexandria Health Department (AHD), two ...

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This silent 1930s-era raccoon footage presents a charming and naturalistic study of raccoon behavior in a woodland setting. The film begins with a raccoon interacting with a tree stump, climbing and ...

BOWIE, Md. — After a raccoon was caught and euthanized Sunday, the Bowie Police Department was asking anyone who came into contact with the animal to visit a medical center and get tested for rabies.

When Carlyn Porter, emergency response and epidemiology program administrator for Pitkin County, started her job, she received a raccoon head in a candy container. With animals bigger than a bat ...

Raccoons eat a variety of foods. Because they are omnivores, these masked bandits have thrived in both their natural habitats and in increasingly urbanized areas. Unlike other animals, whether wild or ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WLEX/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) — A Kentucky nurse utilized CPR techniques to successfully revive a drunk raccoon. A nurse in Kentucky performed an unusual act of heroism when she saved a ...

A Palm Beach County woman is recovering after being attacked by a raccoon in her own backyard.It happened in the PGA National Community in Palm Beach Gardens when Gayl Heinz was getting ready for a ...

Robert Coggeshall was playing with his beagles outside his Youngstown, Ohio, house around noon Friday when he saw the raccoon. The 72-year-old pushed his dogs inside as the raccoon fearlessly made its ...

Rocky Raccoon stars in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, a scrappy, genius, tinkering with tools to solve problems of the universe. It’s not surprising that our raccoon neighbors inspired this ...