Is This A Raccoon Or A Tiger?
Can you tell?
There was a small panic this morning when the Citizen app, (kind of like a crowdsourced Hellworld police scanner) reported there was a TIGER on the loose in Manhattan. Egads!
But then it turned out to be..a raccoon.
Update on tiger reported loose in NYC...
Honest mistake! Let's see if you're better at distinguishing a raccoon from a tiger than a New Yorker!
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1.
en.wikipedia.org
Tiger!
A tiger is a kind of big cat.
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2.
en.wikipedia.org
Tiger!
This noble beast has sharp claws and jaws. Rawr!
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3.
en.wikipedia.org
Raccoon!
This little fella lives in North America and is part of the procyonid family.
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4.
dailyraccoons.tumblr.com
Raccoon!
President Calvin Coolidge had a pet raccoon.
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5.
dailyraccoons.tumblr.com
Raccoon!
Don't be fooled by the saxophone; it's actually a raccoon.
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Flickr: mathiasappel
Tiger!
Notice how it has orange stripes, unlike a raccoon.
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en.wikipedia.org
Tiger!
This one was super tricky — it's a black and white photo so you can't tell that it's orange. But it's definitely a tiger, not a raccoon.
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8.
imgur.com
Raccoon!
Look buddy, I don't have any answers either. Whatever you do with your small omnivorous mammal in the privacy of your home is none of my business.
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Katie Notopoulos is a senior reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York. Notopoulos writes about tech and internet culture and is cohost of the Internet Explorer podcast.
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