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Recent Examples of raccoon
Once a raccoon bites a person, the animal often must be euthanized and tested for rabies, a reality that rescue groups say already happens frequently when owners are unprepared for the challenges of keeping the animals.
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Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
There are racoons, snakes, spiders, scorpions, tarantulas and bees.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
One reason for their success is because raccoons are clever and adaptable.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2026
How are cicadas beneficial to the environment? During normal emergence years, cicadas provide predators with lots of food, including birds, foxes, skunks, and raccoons.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 13 Mar. 2026
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Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
There are racoons, snakes, spiders, scorpions, tarantulas and bees.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
One reason for their success is because raccoons are clever and adaptable.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2026
How are cicadas beneficial to the environment? During normal emergence years, cicadas provide predators with lots of food, including birds, foxes, skunks, and raccoons.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 13 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for raccoon
Noun
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The rabbits were provided by Cuddles for a Cause, and a portion of the proceeds supported the San Diego House Rabbit Society.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
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Of the animals adopted last year, 2,847 were cats, 1,900 were dogs and 231 were rabbits, guinea pigs and other small animals.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
12 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In March 2023, the Beaver Trust revealed in a press release that the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA) took in Fig the beaver after someone found the animal with a gunshot wound on his face in the Perthshire area in January 2023.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
13 Apr. 2026
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Some backlash is brewing against this beloved beaver chain over a new gas policy.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Since 2005, Lake Katherine has been a refuge for migrating birds, beavers, muskrats, bald eagles, ospreys, turtles, and more.—
Mikayla Price,
CBS News,
3 Mar. 2026
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That includes foxes, minks, muskrats, otters, least weasels and bobcats.—
Austin Hornbostel,
Nashville Tennessean,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In other words, as my grandmother (yes, her again) might have said, the lady really knew how to drag her mink.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
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Kansas City’s Line Creek Forest is where various species of birds, squirrels, deer, minks, fish and turtles call home.—
Jenna Ebbers,
Kansas City Star,
6 Mar. 2026
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Park staff are checking camera traps, wading out into the park's swampy wilderness and encouraging visitors to share any otter sightings.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
11 Feb. 2026
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But in the small starfish genus observed by Ricketts, an individual’s excision of his or her longest arm happens so slowly that an otter, turtle, or cannibal would probably vanquish anyway.—
Mandy-Suzanne Wong,
Longreads,
5 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Keeping the mayor in charge of how this city is run is sort of like letting the fox run the henhouse.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Apr. 2026
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Tumble Leaf' Told in an enchanting stop-motion style, Tumble Leaf is about Fig the fox and his friends, who spend all day playing and learning.—
Kara Nesvig,
Parents,
12 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Otters are part of the weasel family (Mustelidae), which includes some of nature’s most ferocious pint-sized predators, such as badgers, martens, and wolverines.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
8 Apr. 2026
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Dachshunds are clever hunters, bred hundreds of years ago in Germany to sniff out badgers.—
Mindy Schauer,
Oc Register,
8 Apr. 2026
Noun
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What's more, the European Commission is planning to announce a decision on banning the holding and killing of mink, foxes, raccoon, dogs and chinchilla, and marketing of fur products from those animals, according to its website.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Feb. 2026
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As for that friendly neighborhood chinchilla?—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
22 Dec. 2025
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“Raccoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raccoon. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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