Summer Weights of Raccoons in Northern Minnesota

Abstract

During the summers of 1948 through 1955, weight data on live-trapped raccoons ( Procyon lotor hirtus Nelson and Goldman) were obtained at three localities in northern Minnesota. Whitney and Underwood (the eaccoon, 1952, pp. 1–177) state “The largest coons are still said to come from the north-central states, but as yet we have no authentic weights” (p. 15). All data presented are live-weights obtained at first capture of the individual. Much of the information was obtained during the period 1950 through 1955 at the Lake Itasca Forestry and Biological Station in Clearwater County. Grants for field studies from the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota made this work possible. Other data are from the Mud Lake National Waterfowl Refuge in …