How to Use raccoon dog in a Sentence

raccoon dog

noun
  • In the dim space decked with red and yellow signs, two cages stacked on top of a drain grate house live raccoon dogs.
    Gabriel Spitzer, NPR, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Most of the 24 farms that have declared outbreaks house foxes, while some have mink or raccoon dogs.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Moreover, raccoon dogs multiply fast, with large litters each year.
    John Myers, Twin Cities, 23 Oct. 2019
  • These findings didn’t establish that raccoon dogs had carried the virus into the market.
    David Quammen, New York Times, 25 July 2023
  • The invading raccoon dogs were eventually chased off by people wielding big pieces of wood.
    John Myers, Twin Cities, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The miniature houses with front stoops guarded by potted plants and tanuki (raccoon dog) figurines had a stillness about them.
    Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2017
  • Because the samples had raccoon dog genes, scientists think the creatures may have been infected.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023
  • But scientists point to a likely animal source, ranging from horseshoe bats to raccoon dogs to even outer space.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The species included in the analysis included raccoon dogs as well as red foxes, rabbits, cats and dogs.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Footage taken from inside the market show wild animals such as snakes, raccoon dogs, porcupines and deer inside cages waiting to be purchased.
    Alicia Lee, CNN, 27 Jan. 2020
  • And are the tanuki (raccoon dogs) that appear briefly a deliberate reference to Pom Poko?
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The Alliance prohibits the use of coyote, mink, rabbit, fox, karakul, raccoon dog, and any other species bred specifically for their fur.
    Leah Silverman, Town & Country, 12 Oct. 2017
  • During the summer months, researchers found brown hare, red deer, moose, wild boar, red fox, raccoon dogs, Eurasian lynx, and wolves alongside them, as well as a number of birds and bats.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The artwork features a snoozing raccoon dog, who wakes up out of his slumber and accidentally falls off an icy cliff, which suddenly turns into a luge course.
    Wandera Hussein, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Tree kangaroos show countershading, Holtz says, and the forest-dwelling raccoon dogs wear color patterns much like Sinosauropteryx.
    Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Many porches displayed tanuki statues, hoping the jolly sake-clutching raccoon dogs brought prosperity.
    Norma Meyer, Orange County Register, 15 May 2024
  • Of the animals present at the market, rabbits, dogs and raccoon dogs are known to be susceptible to Covid-19 infections.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The report describes finding raccoon dog mtDNA in six samples from two different stalls in the Wuhan market.
    Byjon Cohen, science.org, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Or raccoon dogs, animals that look like raccoons but are actually wild members of the canid family, like foxes and wolves, and can spread diseases and become too difficult to handle.
    National Geographic, 26 Apr. 2016
  • Snakes, raccoon dogs, porcupines and deer were just some of the species crammed inside cages, side by side with shoppers and store owners, according to footage obtained by CNN.
    Ben Westcott, CNN, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Advertisement The ministry also essentially approved the practice of farming minks, silver and arctic foxes, and raccoon dogs for fur but not meat.
    Bydennis Normile, science.org, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Researchers also discovered a number of other species in the CEZ during the summer, including brown hare, red deer, moose, wild boar, red fox and raccoon dogs.
    Fox News, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Colorful characters such as fairies, elves, pixies and the whimsical Japanese raccoon dog have evolved to explain the secretive and magical realm where mushrooms are found.
    Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
  • In a briefing Friday morning, the World Health Organization addressed the reports of the potential link to raccoon dogs.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Millions of people around the world consume bushmeat, or meat from wild animals—such as the raccoon dogs reported to have been sold at the Wuhan market—that has minimal regulation or monitoring.
    Jordan Kinard, Scientific American, 8 May 2023
  • Flowers and feathers and leaves and bells bestow transformational powers, turning him into a tanuki (a Japanese raccoon dog) or granting him the ability to fly or hurl fireballs from his hands.
    Literary Hub, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The new study also looked closely at a swab from a cart at the market in which the international team had found a trace of the virus alongside genetic signatures of raccoon dogs, but no detectable genetic material from humans.
    Benjamin Mueller, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The samples that came back positive for the virus also contained genetic material of several animals, particularly large amounts matching the common raccoon dog.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Although the origin of the virus is thought to be from a wild animal, either directly from a bat or though an intermediate host like a civet cat or a raccoon dog, domesticated and zoo animals haven’t been implicated in the virus’s spread.
    Michelle Fay Cortez, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Meanwhile, evidence emerged that live mammals known to spread coronaviruses — including raccoon dogs, furry mammals related to foxes — were being sold at the Huanan market before the pandemic.
    Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023

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