Summer is in full-swing. Suckling raccoons are now weaned and here, in our facility, are living outside on their own in an enclosure.  They are fed, watered and visually examined every day.  Without a mother to teach them, they learn from one another.  Raccoons are highly adaptable and opportunistic.  It is one of the characterisitics that make them successful. In this cage, we give them under road culverts that are hung from the sides of the cages to play in.  They love these tubes and turn them into sleeping, socializing and playing areas.  Here, two four-month old adolscent raccoons lounge during todays mid-day heat.