After a busy baby season, some of the raccoons at the New England Wildlife Center in Weymouth, Massachusetts were recently spotted having the time of their lives. The center recently renovated its outdoor raccoon enclosure, with a reinforced perimeter, better enrichment structures, and additional outdoor cameras. The cameras help staff keep an eye on the raccoons without going in in person—and they’ve recently captured “absolute chaos” at the wildlife center. A video shows a handful of raccoons wrestling, climbing, and playing.

“Our outdoor camera captured just how active they are at night. They are play-wrestling with each other in the video,” Priya Patel, the center’s Wildlife Medical Director, tells Popular Science. “Our goal in rehab is to always keep them as wild as possible. The raccoons in this video are around 4-5 months old and some have been in our care since early May. They are living fully in our outdoor cage and developing more natural behaviors like becoming more nocturnal.”

For those of you wondering if more intimate nighttime activities are also taking place, Patel explains that raccoons don’t become sexually mature until they’re around 10 months old. By then,they will be returned to the wild. All the raccoons in the video are orphans, and most of them were discovered on their own without evidence of a mother being nearby.

They came to the New England Wildlife Center in the spring or early summer, where staff have taken care of them since. Their care included vaccines for rabies, distemper, and parvovirus, and transitioning from formula to more solid food. The wildlife center raises young raccoons in large groups in order for them to bond with each other and not their human caretakers. Their outdoor enclosure also allows more distance from humans.

“Spending time in outdoor enclosures is vital for the success of our patients. For orphans that were raised in care it acclimates them to being back out in the wild and they relearn how to deal with changing weather and temperatures. They learn how to find shade on hot days and then den together on colder rainy days,” Patel explains. “They also have more space to run and climb which builds their muscle strength. Their food is more scattered in outdoor cages and provided in puzzle boxes as enrichment so they develop foraging and problem solving skills.”

Fortunately, it seems like the young raccoons are taking full advantage of their newly renovated outdoor enclosure. Might we suggest a live cam like our bear, beluga, and bald eagle friends?