Please tell me in detail how to distinguish raccoons and civets with similar shapes and sizes.

1, civet: morphological characteristics: body length 49~59cm, tail length 35~50cm, weight 2550 ~ 3800 g.

2. Raccoons: Raccoons are 40 to 70 cm long, 20 to 40 cm long and 23 to 30 cm high at the shoulders.

Second, different body types.

1, civet: as big as a domestic cat and thinner than a raccoon.

2. Raccoon: Compared with civet cats, raccoons are obese and have more body fat.

Third, the appearance characteristics are different.

1, civet: short limbs, long tail, almost equal to body length; The coat is long and thick, and the fluff is empty and thin, with the radian of wool.

2. Raccoons: Raccoons have long tails with black and white rings, and a few are yellow and white, about 5-7. Both the arboreal pantothenic genus and the terrestrial long-nosed raccoon have tail rings, and the long tail of the curly-tailed raccoon (more than 1.5-2.0 times the body length) has no rings, while the long tail of the former is twisted.

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