Black (melanistic) raccoon
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Black (melanistic) raccoon
I was headed over to Illinois yesterday to put the trail camera back up. I was traveling down Highway 62 in Indiana just a little past the USI campus when I noticed something dead beside the road. As I passed it I saw a Black (melanistic) raccoon.
I went on over to Illinois and stopped on my way back for a close up look at it. It was a beautiful Black (melanistic) raccoon. Fur looked in good shape for this time of year. Damage was light. He probably had been laying there for a couple days and had an odor about him. If he had been a fresh kill I would have thrown him in the back of the truck and took him to my taxidermist.
A coon hunter stopped right after I did. He said in 20 years of coon hunting he had never seen a Black (melanistic) raccoon. Anyone on here ever seen one?
I did take a picture of him with my cell phone.
I went on over to Illinois and stopped on my way back for a close up look at it. It was a beautiful Black (melanistic) raccoon. Fur looked in good shape for this time of year. Damage was light. He probably had been laying there for a couple days and had an odor about him. If he had been a fresh kill I would have thrown him in the back of the truck and took him to my taxidermist.
A coon hunter stopped right after I did. He said in 20 years of coon hunting he had never seen a Black (melanistic) raccoon. Anyone on here ever seen one?
I did take a picture of him with my cell phone.
Woody Williams
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No stripes on thsi one's tail. He did have a little brown on his muzzle.Esox wrote:I've seen only one that was very, very dark but not completely black, because the stripes on the tail was almost like a normal colored coon.
That one you have looks really dark......
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In sandusky ohio, there is a NASA research facility called plumbrook. I used to work for a guy who did a research study and in one area of the facility was closed population of black raccoons.
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I know snakes can have this coloration..I use to breed and sell snakes(non venomous)..I had melanistic,piebald,albino,and many other colorations of snakes so I wonder if you could the other colorations in coons,deer,etc,as you can in snakes? http://www.gartersnake.co.uk/mel1.htm