Animal sightings...

[blue_lotus13]

When I got home last night, it was dark. We have a light that goes on outside our door, so I was able to get a little light on the walk up. As I was walking up, I saw a ringed tail and knew immediately that I'd just seen a raccoon! I think I'd seen them from a distance before, but there were two raccoons sitting in the tree outside our house, eating a loaf of French bread! They were a bit aggressive. One of them growled at me as I walked by. One of my roommates told me that they can be quite dangerous. Still, it was a pretty cool sighting.

Edited to add- The name for raccoon is Procyon lotor and in Latin, lotor means "one who washes".
There's also a website which tells you how to feed wild raccoons, which is a very stupid idea, as far as I'm concerned.
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This year has been a good year for animal sightings. I saw several moose while I was planting. I'd seen some in the zoo, but never in the wild. From the safety of a car, I saw a bear cub walking along with its momma. The momma was a cinnamon coloured bear, and her cub was honey coloured. They were walking up the side of a mountain.

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they ARE aggressive.

[kickasphalt.livejournal.com]

and they will stop at nothing to get food.
one year at summer camp, i hid a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in my cubbyhole. bear in mind that said cubby was four feet off the ground, and had a wooden twist lock thingie.

my cabin awoke to a trail of shredded wax paper leading down the front steps.

[angharad.livejournal.com]

Once we were walking home (in Portland) in the dark, and saw a tree wiggling and making the funniest cute squeaky squorky snortle noises. We still don't know whether it was a pair of opossums or raccoons, but they were surely enjoying each other's company.