Raccoon Cubs
Download Raccoon Cubs PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Raccoon Cubs book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages.
Raccoon Cubs
Introduces young readers to raccoons, where they are found, the dens that they live in, and how they raise their young until they go off on their own.
Raccoon Moon
Mother raccoon shows how she cares for her newborn cubs, Rusty, Rudy, and Spice, as they climb trees, find food, and survive predators.
Raccoons
Author: Samuel I. Zeveloff
language: en
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Release Date: 2013-07-09
The word raccoon is drawn from the Native American Algonquian language. Their term arakun roughly translates to “he who scratches with his hands.” Anyone who has found a raccoon rummaging around in a once securely closed trash container can attest to how skillful raccoons are with their front paws. In fact, they have four times as many sensory receptors in their forepaw skin as they do in their hindpaws, a ratio similar to that of human hands and feet. Samuel Zeveloff explores this trait and much more in his accessible natural history of raccoons. Written with the general reader in mind, Raccoons presents detailed information on raccoon evolution, physical characteristics, social behavior, habitats, food habits, reproduction, and conservation, as well as their relationship with humans and many other topics. The section on distribution and subspecies focuses on the raccoon’s current range expansion, and the material on their cultural significance demonstrates this mammal’s unique status in different North American cultures.