Hello, I'm the OUTDOOR PROFESSOR from DiscoveringTheOutdoors.com/ Here's your outdoor tip on raccoons. With that white fur around its black mask and a stripe that runs from its forehead to nose, who can’t help by smile at the sight of a raccoon—a robber in the woods. The raccoon’s toes are as flexible as your hands for it to grab and hold on to food—sometimes washing its meal off in the water—looking like a little person handling the food—only how many toes (or fingers) do they have? (I’ll give you several quiz questions such as this one. Keep track of your answers and find the correct answers at the end of this podcast.) They have outstanding climbing ability being able to forward up trees as fast as they can go backwards. All these things go together to make baby raccoons adorable to the average person and whenever a young one is found alone in the woods, it is sometimes adopted by a human family—“to save it.” Things go okay in the human environment until the little guy becomes
