Barbados raccoon

The Barbados raccoon (Procyon Lotor Gloveralleni) is an extinct subspecies of the common raccoon that was endemic to the island of Barbados in the Caribbean or West Indies. It was declared extinct in 1964 which is also when the Mexican grizzly bear went extinct. The Barbados raccoon was small, dark, and relatively handsome. Raccoons have existed on Barbados for hundreds of years. Their tails had 4 narrow black rings and a black tip, their heads were black from the top of the muscle to the nose, mask like on the cheeks, and white at the sides and chin. The top of the head was a mixture of buff, grey, and black and the ears were gray with black patches behind and their feet were white tinged with buff. The raccoon was a pest, due to destroying crops and people placed a bounty on their head because of the raccoon's destruction in the 19th century. Since they were handsome, many were kept as pets but the raccoon had a darker side because in the wild they were known to damage crops. 1 specimen was killed by a car in a road near Bathsheba. It was closely related to the other raccoons of the West Indies. The Barbados raccoon may have been actually introduced to the island by humans or they were swept by shore on floating tree trunks or even drifting rafts from the North American mainland including Florida and Georgia like the lemurs have arrived millions of years ago from Africa to Madagascar. The only mounted specimen is exhibited at a museum in Barbados in the Garrison historic area and the specimens from these pictures are the ones. According to Lin Sagovsky, it would have survived until 1970 and according to the Wikipedia, it would have also survived until 1996. There is also another extinct specimen and there is only one and kept in a museum in where it lived including the Zanzibar leopard. They were distinct from those other raccoons from the West Indies and Florida than those other raccoons of the American mainland. It is thought that they came from Florida or Georgia.