How our actions are making raccoons smarter | Webby Award Winner

How our actions are making raccoons smarter | Webby Award Winner | Nat Geo Explores

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We all know raccoons are cute, but mischievous. They’ve earned a bad reputation from their devious actions in our neighborhoods. But, they’re also extraordinarily smart. So as our homes keep spreading into theirs, raccoons may just be the little critter that’s smart enough to use us and our resources for their own good.
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@NatGeo Жыл бұрын

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@imxploring Жыл бұрын

Too smart for their own good sometimes. Always entertaining.

@WhitneyDahlin Жыл бұрын

Yeah I bet they'll become domesticated just like dogs. I have a raccoon hound (a type of hunting dog) and she's wayy too smart for her own good too! We had to put child locks on all our cabinets and we don't have kids 😂 she uses her paw to open them and get into the trash or steal and tear up my cook books 🙄

@cathydargie9253 Жыл бұрын

I love racoons. They are so intelligent!!

@pumpkinchow Жыл бұрын

I’ve rehabilitated a few raccoons over the years and they are truly intelligent critters. Definitely awesome animals that deserve our respect and compassion specially since we have to share the world with them and this goes for all animals they all deserve our respect. Every year humans take up more of the world pushing animals closer to us and pushing them to the edge of extinction. We’re loosing more species every year and these animals are vital to healthy ecosystems so we all need to learn to live with them and co exist together and be more mindful of how we all effect the world around us. They need our help just as much as we need them 🤷‍♂️

@pumpkinchow Жыл бұрын

Love your neighborhood trash pandas 🤗

@jamessparkman6604 Жыл бұрын

@@pumpkinchow do you think we can make them smart enough to know how to deal with Burmese python eggs because if anyone can do that I’d like to see him or her pull it off

@pumpkinchow Жыл бұрын

@@jamessparkman6604 the issue with that is the pythons stay wrapped around the eggs until they hatch very rarely will they leave their eggs unattended. So the raccoons would have to fight off the python for the eggs which is very unlikely. The raccoons will eat baby pythons when they come across each other but the pythons definitely have the upper hand and advantage. No matter what anyone does they will never be able to get all the pythons out of the wild all we can do is keep the numbers down and learn to co exist

@ElephantSoul Жыл бұрын

Amazing video ❤

@4K_Korean_Style_Ai_Model Жыл бұрын

this is very cute creature. I want to hold him.

@BBooBooBop Жыл бұрын

I once went camping and I put the bench at our campsite on top of our cooler to keep it wedged tightly shut and those raccoons straight up lifted the bench off of it

@GiacomoCarali Жыл бұрын

flex

@einienj3281 Жыл бұрын

Bench lifting racoons! 😂

@NatGeo Жыл бұрын

Wow!

@robertmuller3145 Жыл бұрын

Racoons are everywhere here in Florida, and very entertaining critters

@EpiCz_Izzy Жыл бұрын

We had one removed from our attic recently. At first it scared me before finding out what was making noise up there but once we found out it was a mom raccoon protecting its little ones, I felt bad and of course made sure they were removed in the most humane way possible and they were. The company we hired placed tennis balls in the attic that had the smell of male raccoon urine to scare them off and it worked. Left on their own. Genuinely hope they are ok even though they cost us money to remove them and now having to remove/replace the insulation.

@i_am_a_freespirit Жыл бұрын

Wow, this Video is great. I didn't know half of this stuff. I learn every day more and more via u tube Videos! I love it 🥰

@bobcatchannel.6470 Жыл бұрын

One lovely thing Raccoons like washing their 🐾 paws

@denicewinders1521 Жыл бұрын

This is for Dr Amran. Here in Louisiana everyone has crawfish ponds. My bf has raccoons getting into the crawfish traps, eat the crawfish then put the peelings back in the traps . How bizarre is that?!?!??

@tedgerahedron Жыл бұрын

Ye that's a really pretty lady.

@julybliss4440 Жыл бұрын

Our lives definitely evolve their lives. It's just like cops and robbers or good and bad, just about any animal with a brain will develop a offense for any defense that you can imagine.

@bigcatproductions2789 Жыл бұрын

Very enlightening ! I was loosing sleep 😂

@roxcastaneda Жыл бұрын

This is very interesting. I look forward to learning more. 7:07

@linchian1 Жыл бұрын

聰明又可愛的有趣動物❤

@AnonoBW88 Жыл бұрын

Great Video. Greeting from Indonesia,

@niksondossantoscorrea5252 Жыл бұрын

Bom dia 👋🇧🇷 Belém Pará

@A-FELIX Жыл бұрын

Whenever I see raccoons, I always think of that John Candy movie, The Great Outdoors.

@patrickmileham1364 Жыл бұрын

They're smart enough to get us to look at them closer

@brucegreen5781 Жыл бұрын

Lol a lot of coonery going on🤡💩🍉

@andrewmcquade9413 2 ай бұрын

Raccoons are the best. I would love to be a raccoon researcher, seems like a great job.

@yc9257 Жыл бұрын

All animals are intelligent than we thought, because their history are longer than ours…….

@robertmuller3145 Жыл бұрын

Wrong

@killrkiddx007 Жыл бұрын

Every time I see one beg I walk away

@einienj3281 Жыл бұрын

We are pushing their evolution.. can't wait for them to become completely domesticated, like dogs.. they're beyond cute ❤

@Sarappreciates Жыл бұрын

Yay, hands!!!

@narogakkau.u8596 3 күн бұрын

I love raccoons, they're perfect!!!☺️🦝💕

@Angelica-Sieradzki4 Жыл бұрын

I sometimes see raccoons around me.

@KevinCoolidgeAuthor Жыл бұрын

All raccoons are ninjas, that's why I created the Totally Ninja Raccoons!

@southernflatland Жыл бұрын

This makes me wonder a very existential question... Which came first, the trash panda or the trash can?

@cartomancycarmen Жыл бұрын

Why are they so cute though 😅

@DhaniNMarie Жыл бұрын

Hope this isn't part of the plot for Guardians of the Galaxy 3...

@sherintv478 Жыл бұрын

❤️🌹🦋🍁🌿💫💫

@cloudyxsmurf48 Жыл бұрын

Deforestation makes me so sad

@robertmuller3145 Жыл бұрын

More trees in the U.S.A than ever before. Google it

@Guuzaka Жыл бұрын

Dropping stones in the water to raise the level? 🌊 Bouncing the ball up and down to splash the marshmallows out? ⚾ Yeah, if raccoons could talk, they would be quite the entertainers! 💬🦝

@shohaibqazi4576 9 ай бұрын

forget how our actions make them smarter you ever seen timothy goes to school.

@torontorox Жыл бұрын

you're wrong! they are testing us. that's what makes us evolve. one day we will be able to relate to each animal on a one to one basis.

@yotaiji012 Жыл бұрын

Rocket!

@wardhaniahardha7835 Жыл бұрын

Speaking of the raccoon(swiper), I remember the raccoon whose role is to interfere with Dora in getting things done and this raccoon(swiper) often appears suddenly and steals Dora's important items😂.