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Well, I am not going to belabor the point. Historically all these deformed hairless creatures always turn out to be coyotes, foxes (grey or red) or dogs...

With opposable thumbs?

170 posted on 04/03/2014 6:48:25 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)

171 posted on 04/03/2014 7:48:29 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)

I suppose you could call it a thumb, but it's different..

"Raccoons have been widely used for neurobiological research and with respect to paw (hand) use have been `considered' to be primates because they display highly developed skilled hand use. Their exceptional manipulatory ability is puzzling from an evolutionary perspective both because they belong to a taxon that is divergent from primates and because most members of their taxon are not especially skilled. Surprisingly, there has been no systematic investigation of their manipulatory ability."

172 posted on 04/03/2014 7:52:16 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)