Raccoons have been seen dipping their food into water to moisten it and to remove sand or grit from it.
Raccoons can use their hands as well as monkeys.
They pick up their food with their hands and then place it in their mouths. Raccoon babies are called kits. Kits are born after a 9 week pregnancy. Usually 3-4 kits are born in a litter. At birth they do not have defined stripes on their faces.