Meeko the Raccoon is released into the Raccoon enclosure at the 5 Sisters Zoo by Gemma Varley and Kayleigh MacLean.
Meeko the captured raccoon has found a new family.
The animal was caught roaming around South Lanarkshire after a spate of chicken killings.
The creature, native to North America, had been wandering the area for a few months.
Several chickens were found dead by a farmer near Biggar as well as strange tracks being found on the property.
A specialist set a fox trap and contained the female raccoon before it was temporarily housed at a nearby Scottish SPCA centre. Attempts to find her owner proved unsuccessful.
Now Meeka, named after a character in the 1995 animated Disney movie Pocahontas, has been moved to a new home at Five Sisters Zoo in West Calder, joining an established family of five other raccoons.
Five Sister’s head keeper Gemma Varley said: “When we let her out into the enclosure she was a bit nervous. But she has dug her own little tunnel to sleep in and has been climbing trees at night.”
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