Happy International Raccoon Appreciation Day to all who observe!

Please appreciate:
- these baby raccoons eating bird seeds
- this raccoon that dropped from the sky right in front of me, as I was about to walk under an overpass yesterday

https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/international-raccoon-appreciation-day-october-1

Can’t miss Raccoon Appreciation Day! After all Toronto is their city, we just live here.

For #RaccoonAppreciationDay: Bric-a-braccoons and Hatrackoons
[from "The Terrors of the Tiny Tads," a comic strip full of kooky hybrid creatures by Gustave Verbeek that ran in syndication via the NY Herald from 1905-1914]
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It's #InternationalRaccoonAppreciationDay so let's appreciate this poor #raccoon (probably a Crab-eating raccoon, Procyon cancrivorus) who got mistaken for a #coati (a fellow procyonid) in a 1737/41 sketchbook by Emanuel Mendes Da Costa (1717-1791).
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/folio-19-from-an-album-of-124-watercolours-emanuel-mendes-da-costa/6gHrezs6iqZoJA
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For #RaccoonAppreciationDay here is a watercolor of Linnaeus' pet #raccoon, Sjupp, by Lars Alstring, c.1746-7. Sjupp was a gift from Crown Prince Fredrik and lived in Linnaeus' garden at Uppsala. This work hung in Linnaeus' study at Hammarby.
Read more about Sjupp here: https://nature.com/articles/446255a
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