Many animals including the raccoon have a home range or territory in which they spend their lives.
The home range includes woodlots, fields, yards, and other areas that an individual raccoon considers as its home. The boundaries of this territory are invisible to us but are well known and patrolled regularly by the raccoon. The home range or territory contains all the important places that the raccoon needs to live. The raccoon needs a variety of food sources, denning, resting, basking, and defecating sites, and a supply of water. The size of the home range varies greatly and depends upon the habitat.