Mammals

They look like raccoons wearing a dog suit, hibernate like bears, and star in Japanese folklore as magical pranksters with comically oversized testicles. Meet the **tanuki** (*Nyctereutes procyonoides*) – the raccoon dog – East Asia’s most charming and problematic canine. Despite their masked faces and ringed tails, tanuki are 100% canids, not procyonids. Native to […]