Fellow Torontonian here, and I remember a conversation with a PhD candidate from Australia who was interning with us for a couple of months; he and his wife said that although they were living in the downtown area, they had never seen a raccoon. I said that they had; there was no way they hadn’t seen one, but probably thought it was a large cat in the dark.
They were also curious about chipmunks, and had trouble wrapping their minds around ground squirrels.
