The collective noun for raccoons is a “gaze”; a group of raccoons is a gaze of raccoons (go figure).
However, there’s never a lot of gazing going on when baby raccoons are out exploring; they swarm. Everyone bustles in a different direction, checking things out. They climb the trees, scramble over the stumps, look in all the holes, and feel under the rocks (which is something that no one in his right mind in these here parts would do; there are scorpions, fire ants, snakes, spiders… The list can often seem endless).
The little ones in this video were out with their mama in the tree stump den playpen. Mama was (as mama raccoons usually are) unconcerned about trying to keep tabs on what each of her pretty little kits was up to. Which is just as well, because she didn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell.
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