(n.) A North American nocturnal carnivore (Procyon lotor) allied to the bears, but much smaller, and having a long, full tail, banded with black and gray. Its body is gray, varied with black and white. Called also coon, and mapach.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparing the data for raccoon MsI with information from the literature for cats and monkeys suggests that the type and amount of somesthetic afferent input to forelimb MsI is related to the behavioral uses to which each animal puts the forelimb.
(3) In 2000 the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm showed an owl in a tree calling "Whom" and a raccoon on the ground replying "Show-off!"
(4) During 1982 and 1983, the Centers for Disease Control and cooperating Middle Atlantic States and local health departments collected data on 1,610 raccoons that were submitted for rabies testing and on 133 persons who received rabies postexposure prophylaxis as a result of exposure to wild animals.
(5) The raccoon may be an intermediate host for a Sarcocystis sp.
(6) To our knowledge, this is the first documentation of the successful seroconversion of skunks and raccoons vaccinated against rabies in the field.
(7) Nematodes were not recovered from either raccoon when examined at necropsy 223 and 254 days postexposure.
(8) In three cases (fox, raccoon, skunk) SAFA titers were greater than mouse SN titers.
(9) Vaccinated raccoons demonstrated a prominent anamnestic response within 1 wk following challenge.
(10) No immediate ancestor of CPV was observed amongst the mink, cat, or raccoon viruses examined.
(11) Leads I, aVF, V3, and V10 ECG were obtained from 12 healthy raccoons anesthetized with xylazine and ketamine.
(12) The causative agent was demonstrated through direct examination of stained paraffin sections, isolation in pure culture, or examination of stained smears from lesions induced experimentally in rabbits with material from the affected raccoons.
(13) Raccoons on Area 1 were vaccinated with a commercial inactivated rabies virus vaccine administered intramuscularly, whereas on Area 2 raccoons were not vaccinated.
(14) In this investigation, raccoons fed a vaccinia-rabies glycoprotein recombinant virus in a sponge bait developed rabies virus-neutralizing antibody (0.6-54.0 units) and resisted street rabies virus infection 28 and 205 days after feeding.
(15) SA hair-associated afferent fibers, which have been reported previously only in primate hairy skin, were also found in large numbers in the raccoon.
(16) Multiple penetrations in the somatosensory cortex of three anesthetized raccoons 1 week following amputation of the fourth digit provided detailed information about somatotopy and neuronal responsiveness in the deafferented cortex.
(17) Lesions in infected raccoons were associated only with H procyonis.
(18) The pathology of dracunculiasis in the raccoon is described and the transmission of the parasite in the wild is discussed with respect to seasonality and local agricultural practices.
(19) Furthermore, animals developing SNA under such circumstances were capable of withstanding challenge with rabies virus that was fatal for seronegative raccoons.
(20) Raccoons have been used as serologic sentinels for St Louis encephalitis and Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis.
Ringtail
Definition:
(n.) A bird having a distinct band of color across the tail, as the hen harrier.
(n.) A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recent research on social enhancement and suppression of ovarian cycles in mammals suggests that a single pheromone-based signal-response system could mediate both ringtailed lemurs' remarkable annual estrous synchrony and the subsidiary asynchrony reported here.
(2) The retinal projections in the ringtailed possum, Pseudocheirus peregrinus were determined using Fink-Heimer material and autoradiography.
(3) Ringtail was only initiated in animals of all ages, from populations originating from different areas of South Africa, when the relative humidity fell below 30%.
(4) is described in the ringtail possum Pseudocheirus peregrinus (Petauridae).
(5) Mean retention times (MRTs) of fluid (marked with Co-EDTA), fine particles (mordanted with Yb) and large particles (mordanted with Cr) were measured in brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula), ringtail possums (Pseudocheirus peregrinus) and laboratory rabbits fed semipurified diets.
(6) Asynchrony of estrus and female mate choice cause current models to explain male membership in primate groups to fail for ringtailed lemurs.
(7) Lysozyme and alpha-lactalbumin from the milk of the common ringtail possum have been purified and partially sequenced.
(8) However, the higher digestibilities of fibre in the rabbits than in the ringtail possums could not be explained on a similar basis.
(9) The presence of an active glucuronic acid pathway and associated glucose-ascorbate-glucose cycle was postulated for the brushtail possum and the other arboreal marsupials, Pseudocheirus peregrinus (common ringtail possum) and Petauroides volans (greater glider).
(10) Data from wild and semifree-ranging groups of ringtailed lemurs (Lemur catta) were combined to evaluate the hypothesis that female ringtailed lemurs exhibit asynchrony of estrus within seasonal synchrony of estrous cycles.
(11) The incidence of ringtail was curtailed by maintaining relative humidity above 45% in animal houses.
(12) Fibre digestibility was greater in the rabbits than in the ringtail possums, and greater for neutral-detergent fibre (including agar) but less for acid-detergent fibre in the rabbits than in the brushtails.
(13) Photoperiodic and probably social entrainments lead all females within social groups of ringtailed lemurs to experience estrus annually within periods of 7 to 20 days.
(14) Wildcaught cinnamon ringtail monkeys, Cebus albifrons, were fed diets with Ca:P ratios of 1:4 1:2.1 1:0,4, and 1:0.5 for 3 to 88 months.
(15) Several types of immunoreactive cells were seen on the intestinal villi and in crypts of these species: 9 types in the koala; 8 types in the common brushtail possum; 7 types in the common wombat; 6 types in the short-nosed bandicoot and 5 types in the ringtailed possum, great grey kangaroo, parma wallaby and tiger cat.
(16) In ringtail possums MRTs of the fluid and fine particle markers were approximately twice that of the large particle marker, indicative of selective retention of both fluid and fine particles in the caecum.