What Remains

Raccoons eat a pumpkin during Halloween celebrations at the zoo in Kiev, Ukraine. Photo: Gleb Garanich/Reuters.

Watching the Wheels

A raccoon takes the driver’s seat of a 1970s Ford Pinto on a deserted farm in Saskatchewan, Canada. (From the Natural History Museum’s selection of highly commended pictures in competition at the 55th Wildlife Photographer of the Year | Urban wildlife category). Photo: Jason Bantle.

La Loge (The Theatre Box)

New York City, United States: A raccoon peers out from under a staircase at Flushing Meadows during the U.S. Open tennis championships. Photo: Justin Lane/EPA.

The Importance of Not Being Arcovazzi

A daredevil raccoon finally reached the top of a high rise building in Minnesota. The creature was watched by thousands of people online as it spent almost 20 nail-biting hours scaling the facade of a 25-storey office tower in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. Once rescued, it was released back in the wild.