Figure 1.

European distribution of raccoons (blue: raccoons detected, green: no raccoons detected, gray: non-European country, not considered). A state is defined as a distribution area of raccoons, regardless of the abundance and distribution of the raccoons within the state territory. The year indicates the first detection of raccoons in a national territory. Abbreviations: 1: Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2: Montenegro (1998), data collected before the independence of Montenegro and therefore no separation between Serbia and Montenegro, 3: Albania, 4: Northern Macedonia [3,31,34,35,42,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53].