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ICYMI - Trash Panda Puzzles? Raccoon Science to Save Your Garbage
Raccoon intelligence is one of the most colloquially accepted ideas in North American wildlife, and one of the least formally studied. There are 167 known types of blood cancer. There is almost no peer-reviewed research on how raccoons think. One PhD candidate at UBC is trying to change that.
The puzzle box had three problems on it and one marshmallow inside. The raccoon solved a problem, retrieved the marshmallow, confirmed by sight and touch and probably smell that the box was empty, and kept solving. That is the result Hannah Griebling did not fully expect and cannot entirely explain yet…
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