New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1981) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A detailed study of these 'ecological opportunists' who can live in forests, marshes and coastal environments and even in suburbs and cities. Includes a discussion of their "behavioral characteristics (curiosity, raccoons in motion, winter denning); feeding habits, controlling their numbers mating, and cubs.. and a chapter on caring for raccoons, which will be especially helpful for those who - like the author - have been called upon to nurture orphaned raccoon cubs. Illustrated with sensitive drawings by J. Sharkey Thomas. An association copy INSCRIBED on the front endpaper page by MacClintock to scientist and author Jacqueline Schoneward, "With admiration always" and dated Christmas, 1980. References, index. xi, 144 pp. ISBN: 0-684166194.