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Urban Raccoons Show Early Signs of Domestication (www.vice.com)

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Detailed by Scientific American, a team led by biologist Raffaela Lesch collected nearly 20,000 raccoon photos from users of iNaturalist, a social network/science project that allows its users to log and share scientific observations. Lesch and the team found that across the U.S., raccoons living in cities consistently had snouts about 3.5 percent shorter than those in rural areas. That might not sound like much, but it’s significant in evolutionary terms. It’s a sign of something called “domestication syndrome,” and it isn’t a random occurrence.

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[–] its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days ago

New housepet just dropped. Jokes aside this could be concerning if there were a marked drop in rural and wilderness racoons. Until then I see this as a sign of biodiversity overcoming our destructive ways.