TIL: There’s Probably a Raccoon Living on Every City Block in North America | Today I Learned

every city block probably has a raccoon
living on it and people very rarely see
them or or even know that they’re these
animals
I have adapted to urban living in a way
it makes them common and present in
almost every major urban complex
throughout the United States and a lot
of Canada their tremendous at adapting
they have manual dexterity almost
equivalent to that of a primate they’re
intelligent they’re omnivores they can
eat lots of different foods these
animals live in our buildings they got
on our roofs they figured out how to
cope with these environments just as
well or better than they used to do in
the wilderness they even go into the
sewer system get away from traffic and
people and can move for considerable
distances using those tunnels
so Araku wants to live in a city because
this is good habitat for them truth is a
whole bunch of different species have
begun to use cities because they’re
adapting they’re figuring it out and
they’re moving in if you walk up Mount
st. Helens and you look down into the
crater well you’ll see as a baby volcano
growing within there