As soon as the word got out, people from all walks of life proffered suggestions. It was finally decided to take the democratic approach of letting the elementary school students of Taipei, nearly 300,000 of them in all, vote for their favorite, and in a runoff between a raccoon, lion, clouded leopard, Taiwan black bear, antelope, and elephant, they picked the raccoon.
消息傳出後，社會各界即對吉祥動物的產生方式紛表意見，最後決定由台北市的近卅萬小學生，以最民主的方式，在浣熊、獅子、雲豹、台灣黑熊、羚羊和大象等候選者中，選出浣熊為吉祥動物。