Pajama-wearing raccoon enjoys tasty snack together with his owner

The original habitats of the raccoon are deciduous and mixed forests, but thanks to their adaptability, they need extended their range to mountainous areas, coastal marshes, and concrete areas, where some homeowners consider them to be pests. As a results of escapes and deliberate introductions within the mid-20th century, raccoons are now also distributed across much of mainland Europe, the Caucasus, and Japan.