The rest, as they say, is history. Okuda, 52, is the winner of no less than seven tanuki (raccoon dog) “belly drum” contests, in which participants play songs on their stomachs using their ...

The Japanese name for Thismia, one of the major groups within this family, is "Tanuki-no-shokudai," which means "raccoon dog's candleholder," and refers both to their shape and their underground ...

A 'code red' was declared and a member of the gun team was deployed at Fota Wildlife Park last year when an agile gibbon ...

It turns out there’s a hue of brown that equally conveys “mouthwatering baked goods” and “cuddly forest critter,” and that’s exactly the degree to which Kimuraya bakes its new tanuki bread. Inspired ...

a fable on the unlikely friendship between a shapeshifting tanuki (raccoon dog) trickster and a heartbroken old man; and a classical Japanese ghost story about a spurned lover who seeks revenge ...

The pig learns from the tanuki how to transform itself and tries to turn into a tanuki, but his face remains that of a pig. He is thus given the name Butanuki, a portmanteau of "buta" (pig) and tanuki ...

A capybara - the world's largest rodent - and a critically endangered cockatoo were among the animals that escaped from Irish ...