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I'm no IPA professional, but I speak the first syllable of Raccoon as though it were the first part of the word 'rack' or 'back', and I'm pretty sure that's not the "ae" sound indicated in the phonetic pronunciation... -Ayeroxor (talk) 11:14, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The IPA ligature -- the two graphs joined, not separate "a" and "e" -- does indeed represent the sound you indicate; cf. (/[invalid input: 'en-us-Kansas.ogg']ˈkænzəs/) DavidOaks (talk) 11:51, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the edification :) - Ayeroxor (talk) 20:22, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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• I added a citation to the CN statement. Additionally, I removed the following text, nowikied in case it shouldbe re-added or changed, with the citations which are now dead links:

[[Guadeloupe raccoon]] (''P. l. minor'') and [[Tres Marias Raccoon]] (''P. l. insularis'') were classified as [[endangered species|endangered]] by the [[International Union for Conservation of Nature|IUCN]] in 1996.<ref>{{IUCN2007|assessors=Mustelid Specialist Group|year=1996|id=18268|title=Procyon insularis|downloaded=2008-08-10}}</ref>{{Dead link|date=February 2010}}<ref>{{IUCN2007|assessors=Mustelid Specialist Group|year=1996|id=18269|title=Procyon maynardi|downloaded=2008-08-10}}</ref>{{Dead link|date=February 2010}}<ref>{{IUCN2007|assessors=Mustelid Specialist Group|year=1996|id=18270|title=Procyon minor|downloaded=2008-08-10}}</ref>{{Dead link|date=February 2010}}<!-- offline at the moment -->

• Those species no longer appear in the IUCN's database. Additionally, P.L. Maynardi is also no longer listed in the redlist individually (it shows as a Synonym of P.Lotor) but I left it in for now, as the book cite would verify that it was listed in 1996, even if it is not now. Looking for further info on these guys... Arakunem^Talk 18:20, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The risk of infection and subsequent fatal outcome with balyascaris does not have enough emphasis. Please check the CDC website, and other medical articles. 24.211.43.76 (talk) 03:06, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Is it just me or is the raccoon in the taxobox image unusually dark? I double-checked the species to make sure I was on the page for Procyon lotor and not some other raccoon. I've seen many raccoons over the past twenty years, but they were always primarily a light peppered gray color, not this dark blackish-brown. (See the raccoons in the "Behavior" section as an example.) Is this some kind of regional variation? Because I've never seen a P. lotor that looked like that. 74.243.20.144 (talk) 16:03, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]