Studies in the 1990s by the ethologists Stanley D. Gehrt and Ulf Hohmann suggest that raccoons engage in gender-specific social behaviors and are not typically solitary, as was previously thought.
Istraživanja tijekom 1990-ih godina od etologa Stanleya D. Gehrta i Ulfa Hohmanna pokazala su da su rakuni društveni što se tiče različitih spolova i da nisu tipično solitarni, kako se prije smatralo.