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This tiny raccoon turned trash into toys—and taught her family how, too
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Posted:   Subject: This tiny raccoon turned trash into toys—and taught her family how, too Quote

Link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-endangered-pygmy-raccoon-turned-trash-into-toys-and-taught-her-family-how-too/

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Her research, recently published in the journal Wild, may be the first documented evidence of any animal within the Procyonidaefamily—a group that includes raccoons, coatis and ringtails—displaying a form of “material culture”: behavior involving material surroundings that is passed along to others.
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#2 Posted: · edited   Subject: Re: This tiny raccoon turned trash into toys—and taught her f... Quote Reply

And then died of malnutrition because they eat human garbage.

Also, the scientist who discovered this was one of the people behind Dashcon
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