Raccoon dogs are omnivores, dining on food sources like rodents and berries. Although they appear svelte in the summer, they pack on the pounds for winter, when their fur also becomes thicker.

Despite its name, a raccoon dog is neither a raccoon nor a dog, but it does belong to the canid family, the lineage that includes dogs, wolves, and foxes.Here are some fascinating facts about the ...

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.

Raccoon dogs may not really be raccoons, but they could pose a problem for native wildlife.

New data shows that raccoon dogs in a Wuhan market could be linked to the coronavirus's origins. The animal, related to the fox, can carry diseases communicable to humans.

Raccoon dogs have long been hunted and bred for their fur, which is likely why they were being sold in the Wuhan market. According to the Humane Society of the United States , millions are killed ...

Raccoon dogs were still on sale at the market between 2017 and late 2019, when covid-19 began to spread. In early 2020, the stall in which Holmes had seen raccoon dogs, ...

The new data does not definitively prove that raccoon dogs passed the virus that causes Covid-19 to humans, but the WHO’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a news briefing on ...

Raccoon dogs are not raccoons — but are members of the canid, or dog family, according to the U.K.’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA).

The raccoon dogs escaped from an enclosure near Clarborough, according to a statement made by Nottinghamshire Police. One of the wild creatures was later discovered by Dale and Mandy Marsh, ...

New research points to raccoon dogs in Wuhan market as pandemic trigger. It's controversial : Goats and Soda With genetic samples from the infamous Wuhan market, a new study makes the case that ...