• when one of the rare recordings of "Stormy Weather" by The Five Sharps, a 78 rpm record, was broken, the blame was placed on a pet raccoon that supposedly sat on it?
• a single raccoon reduced the entire population of White Cay iguanas to 140 males and 10 females in one year?

Facts on topics related to Raccoon

Gray Wolf

• the Northern Rocky Mountains Wolf (pictured), a form of the Gray Wolf that used to live primarily in Yellowstone National Park, was court ordered to be re-listed under Endangered Species Act protections on August 6, 2010?

Cougar

• the Bay Area Puma Project is the first major study of mountain lions living in the San Francisco Bay Area?

Coyote

• in October 2009 Canadian folk singer Taylor Mitchell became the first adult in North America known to have been killed by coyotes?
• the Varmint of Burke's Garden was a coyote that terrorized the community of Burke's Garden, Virginia, in 1952?

American Black Bear

• the rodents of the Caribbean include the hutias (pictured) and two extinct species: the bear-sized Amblyrhiza and the cat-sized Megalomys desmarestii?

Brown Bear

• construction for the bobsleigh, luge, and track to be used for the 2014 Winter Olympics has been delayed due to high downhill grades and location near a World Heritage Site, including near an endangered species of brown bear?
• the bear kept in Camperdown Country Park, the largest park in Dundee, bit the arm off a 10-year-old boy?

Cat

• Sockington, a cat on the microblogging site Twitter, now has over a million followers since starting there in 2007?
• in addition to human spaceflight, there have been many animals in space, including monkeys, apes, mice, dogs, guinea pigs, frogs, rats, cats, tortoises, fish, newts, insects, snails, spiders and nematodes?
• the Witches of Belvoir supposedly believed a cat named Rutterkin helped them cast spells?
• the most popular tourist attraction in Omaha has been voted the best zoo in America, with the largest cat complex in North America?
• the stationmaster of the Kinokawa train station in Kinokawa, Japan is a cat named Tama (pictured)?

Sea otter

• sea otter conservation efforts have included successful translocations of sea otters (pictured) from Alaska to British Columbia and Washington?
• The Marine Mammal Center has rescued over 12,000 sea otters, sea lions, dolphins and other species, but also produces important scientific discoveries regarding marine chemistry?