Get to know the raccoon dog, which is neither a raccoon nor a dog. ... 11. A rare white tanuki was discovered in 2013. In 2013, an all-white tanuki with blue eyes was found on a farm in Japan, ...

Many tales from Japanese folklore often feature a fascinating character called the tanuki. Depending on the story, this ...

Instead, the Coolidge family kept it as a pet, and Rebecca the raccoon quickly gained fame at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. ... was once called "the most famous dog in White House history," reports say.

Raccoon dogs were implicated in the first SARS-CoV-1 (known at the time simply as SARS) outbreak approximately two decades ago, as wild raccoon dogs have been found to naturally carry it.

A raccoon dog looks out of its cage in a Chinese live animal market in January 2004. Raccoon dogs could have been an initial host for the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.

China is a leading producer of raccoon dog pelts; in 2014, the country produced more than 14 million pelts, 100 times as many as Europe, according to one report. They are also sold for their meat ...