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also racoon
as in rabbit
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Recent Examples of raccoon
Last week, New York state officials seized and euthanized Peanut from owner Mark Longo's home in Pine City, New York, as well as his pet raccoon named Fred.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
As an example, years ago Florida researchers had been hearing claims about the decimation of meso mammals, which are medium-sized critters like raccoons, rabbits, and possums.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 24 Oct. 2024
Predators, including raccoons, dogs and rodents, also pose significant risks during this period.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
Rabies is commonly found in bats, raccoons, foxes, skunks and some household pets.
—CBS News, 4 Dec. 2024
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
As an example, years ago Florida researchers had been hearing claims about the decimation of meso mammals, which are medium-sized critters like raccoons, rabbits, and possums.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 24 Oct. 2024
Predators, including raccoons, dogs and rodents, also pose significant risks during this period.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
Rabies is commonly found in bats, raccoons, foxes, skunks and some household pets.
—CBS News, 4 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for raccoon
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Absent any last minute rabbits videoed popping up in magician’s hats, then the key date looks like being January 19.Zak Doffman, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Jaguars also eat peccaries, capybaras, pacas, agoutis, deer, opossum, rabbits, armadillos, caimans, turtles and livestock, depending on their habitat.Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 17 Dec. 2024
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Trapping beavers to meet the initial treaty requirements eventually became impossible.Andrew Sharp, Outdoor Life, 27 Nov. 2024
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By Sara Miller Llana Staff writer | Port-Royal and Bear River First Nation, Nova Scotia Paul Lalonde adjusts his glossy beaver felt hat and welcomes the visitors gathered around a long table to his Order of Good Cheer.Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024
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Edward’s parenting was particularly industrious, requiring his children to paint their own rooms, make their own clothes and earn extra cash by trapping and skinning muskrats to sell their pelts.Emily Blackwood, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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The researchers also analyzed several other species raised for fur, meat, and medicinal purposes, including deer, muskrats, guinea pigs, rabbits, and badgers.ByJon Cohen, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024
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At last, a show about retirees, with their mink coats and cha-cha lessons.Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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Wispy hybrids, classic sets, 35mm minks, and more, lash extensions provided a semi-permanent alternative to strip lashes and mascara.Cierra Black, Essence, 21 Oct. 2024
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There are others too: gorilla, aardvark, Himalayan blue sheep, the Giant Japanese Salamander and the Asian small-clawed otter, to name a few.Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2024
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Over the past 50 years, otter populations have rebounded with federal protection.Michael Heithaus, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2024
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Some have compared the idea of doctors setting their own payscale to the proverbial fox guarding the henhouse.Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2024
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The fossil fuel foxes are guarding the climate henhouse, both in the United States and internationally.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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Found throughout Botswana, honey badgers are famously ferocious.Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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Mammals such as wolves and badgers also create dens.Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
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Lucas retains his hold on the lucrative smack market largely because of his ability to not attract attention; his eventual downfall is hastened by the regrettable decision to stand out in a crowd for once and rock a chinchilla fur coat and matching hat at a prizefight.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2024
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While our guide talked, viscachas — Peruvian chinchillas — scurried atop the walls and a quartet of wild llamas gathered on one of the lawns.Monisha Rajesh, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2024
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“Raccoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raccoon. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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