Adorable Raccoon Babies Make Human Friend

June 2, Wooster Ohio—the time and place that photographer Dominyk Lever may have captured on camera one of the cutest raccoon interactions ever recorded.

While fishing for rainbow trout in the town's Apple Creek, Lever, traveling in the U.S. from his home in Tanzania, heard small chirping sounds.

"It was the middle of the day and [I] looked down at my feet to see the three raccoons approaching me and clamoring to climb up my legs, which I let them do," said Lever in an email.

He said they then proceeded to climb over his shoulders and lick his ears, leading Lever to believe they had possibly lost their mother. Another fisherman soon stumbled upon the frolicking foursome and fed

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