With a powerful bite and sharp teeth, a raccoon snip on the ... holds a young raccoon he removed from a crawl space under a home in Woodacre, California. Raccoons are increasingly sharing space ...

"He would stand up on his hind legs, which I've never seen a raccoon do before, and he would show his teeth and then he would fall over backward and go into almost a comatose condition ...

The first? An outbreak of what residents have described as "zombie-like behavior" involving raccoons who bare their teeth, walk on their hind legs and don't seem to be afraid of humans.