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Podcast: Closer Look
Episode: Pet raccoon? Don’t trash the idea until you watch this
Description: Raccoons as pets? Don’t laugh.A new study has found that urban raccoons have shorter snouts compared to their rural counterparts — a sign they're heading down the same path of evolutionary domestication that dogs and cats did tens of thousands of years ago.TorontoToday reporter Emma Johnston-Wheeler dug a little deeper into the research, seeking out reaction in a city where the raccoon has risen to the status of de facto mascot.Johnston-Wheeler is our guest on tonight’s episode of Village Media’s Closer Look podcast.Hosted by Village Media’s...