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A very minor detail, but on the map Guadeloupe is marked red, meaning the racoon is native there. However on page for the Guadeloupe raccoon it says: " ... the Guadeloupe raccoon was introduced by humans just a few centuries ago. ". Shouldn't Guadeloupe then be blue on the map?

The photos are biased to day time. How about a few night time shots:

In the Intelligence section, raccoons' 'learning speed' is discussed but those words are linked to an article on 'Speed Learning' which is not really relevant and does not have the same meaning as its use in the raccoons article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Benchmark99 (talk • contribs) 02:35, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Done. -- Kürschner (talk) 09:54, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Raccoons eat vegetables and fruits and cherries!

Considering their masked faces it is a funny coincidence that racoon is an anagram to corona. Shouldn't that be noted in the article? 46.114.37.218 (talk) 15:17, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This sort of trivia isn't very relevant to this article. Wikipedia used to have a list of anagrams, but it has already been deleted. Jarble (talk) 13:33, 4 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No mention that racoon is spelt racoon, not raccoon, in English. It's spelt racoon everywhere apart from the USA, since English is the worldwide language and not American English - especially in the Commonwealth nations. See: https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195135084.001.0001/acref-9780195135084-e-1813 2A02:C7F:48B0:E400:D1F7:E51:EB6:9093 (talk) 23:06, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The first paragraph of the Etymology section says "The word is sometimes spelled as racoon." If you think this should be expressed differently, please specify the exact change that you want, in the form "Please change X to Y". Also note that the raccoon is a North American animal, and the form "raccoon" has used at least 10 to 20 times more frequently than "racoon" since at least 1900, according to Google Ngrams. CodeTalker (talk) 00:40, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]