You may be referring to the red panda. Red pandas are about the size of a raccoon and have a bushy tail. However, that is where the resemblance ends.
The animal is a Red Panda.
Red Panda
A South American mammal with an elongated snout might be an anteater or a tapir.
There are two species of raccoon:1.) Common, or northern raccoon, (Procyon lotor) of North and Central America.2.) Crab eating raccoon, (Procyon cancrivorus) of Central and South America.
The raccoon is found in Central America along with its close cousin, the coati. The coati ranges from the southwestern United States all the way south into South America.
A kinkajou is a nocturnal arboreal omnivorous mammal found in Mexico and South America that is related to the raccoon and has a long prehensile tail, large eyes, and yellowish brown fur. Also called a honey bear.
Honey bear
The state mammal of New South Wales is the platypus.
The mammal emblem for South Australia is the hairy-nosed wombat.
The range of the northern (or common) raccoon extends from southern Canada south into Panama. The range of the crab eating raccoon extends from Central America through much of South America east of the Andes.
red pandaWell, there are only three possibilities.1. A Raccoon2. A Raccoon Dog3. A Ring-Tailed Lemur that escaped from a ZooI'd say #2, because Raccoon Dogs are native to Asia. #3 sounds kinda ridiculous but if your like me, it's certainly a possibility.
There are two species of raccoon in the wild:Common, or northern, raccoon of North and Central America. Crab-eating raccoon of Central and South America.