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

[@NatGeo]

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[@imxploring]

Too smart for their own good sometimes. Always entertaining.

[@WhitneyDahlin]

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 🙄

[@pumpkinchow]

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]

Love your neighborhood trash pandas 🤗

[@jamessparkman6604]

@@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]

@@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

[@cathydargie9253]

I love racoons. They are so intelligent!!

[@jessstuart7495]

And the parasites they carry (raccoon roundworm) are so wonderful! (sarcasm).

[@ElephantSoul]

Amazing video ❤

[@robertmuller3145]

Racoons are everywhere here in Florida, and very entertaining critters

[@EpiCz_Izzy]

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.

[@BBooBooBop]

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]

flex

[@einienj3281]

Bench lifting racoons! 😂

[@NatGeo]

Wow!

[@CowboyPants-h5p]

Love having the clip from the Three Stooges film "Ants In The Pantry". A classic!!!

[@Kkkkkkkkkkkkjjjjjsadrg]

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

[@julybliss4440]

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.

[@denicewinders1521]

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]

Ye that's a really pretty lady.

[@bigcatproductions2789]

Very enlightening ! I was loosing sleep 😂

[@roxcastaneda]

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

[@bobcatchannel.6470]

One lovely thing Raccoons like washing their 🐾 paws

[@linchian1]

聰明又可愛的有趣動物❤

[@niksondossantoscorrea5252]

Bom dia 👋🇧🇷 Belém Pará

[@A-FELIX]

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

[@einienj3281]

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

[@patrickmileham1364]

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

[@brucegreen5781]

Lol a lot of coonery going on🤡💩🍉

[@AnonoBW88]

Great Video. Greeting from Indonesia,

[@i_am_a_freespirit]

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 🥰

[@andrewmcquade9413]

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

[@cloudyxsmurf48]

Deforestation makes me so sad

[@robertmuller3145]

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

[@southernflatland]

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

[@DhaniNMarie]

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

[@KevinCoolidgeAuthor]

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

[@torontorox]

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.

[@wardhaniahardha7835]

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😂.

[@yc9257]

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

[@robertmuller3145]

Wrong

[@Guuzaka]

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! 💬🦝

[@narogakkau.u8596]

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

[@Angelica-Sieradzki4]

I sometimes see raccoons around me.

[@Sarappreciates]

Yay, hands!!!

[@cartomancycarmen]

Why are they so cute though 😅

[@shohaibqazi4576]

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

[@sherintv478]

❤️🌹🦋🍁🌿💫💫

[@uniklakshay]

Please make a video on hindi language sir

[@robertmuller3145]

This is a animals show

[@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou]

@@robertmuller3145 Then they can make a video about Hindi-speaking animals.

[@carolinebjerkelund767]

Raccoons are the best

[@killrkiddx007]

Every time I see one beg I walk away

[@yotaiji012]

Rocket!

[@rcaddictgarage]

Raccoon federation👍

[@Smudge_Ghost]

More smarter 😏

[@batman_2004]

I eat em. They taste delicious. 😋