Docile raccoons are likely trash can criminal masterminds

Docile raccoons are super learners and likely trashcan criminal masterminds

A raccoon about to enter the cubicle and a raccoon inside the cubicle pressing one of the buttons . Photo credit: Lauren Stanton.

‘We used live traps baited with cat food to humanely capture raccoons living in the city of Laramie, Wyoming’, says Stanton, who then transported the animals to the lab to assess their health and how feisty or docile they were. Then Stanton injected a tiny radio frequency ID tag between the animals’ shoulder blades to individually identify them before returning the animals to their home territories, keeping track of their impulsivity by recording each time an individual ended up in a trap again.

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