“Young raccoons usually spend the winter in a communal nest with their mother and sometimes other raccoons, as many as twenty-three, in a state of semihibernation, once they have built up a layer of fat to sustain themselves during winter food shortages. Those dens are most often in hollow trees but can also be under tree roots, in rocky crevices, or in remodeled {{w|Groundhog|woodchuck}}, {{w|opossum}}, fox or skunk dens.”