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How Smart Are Corvids

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

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The Role of Selection in the Evolution of Raccoons

In certain communities of raccoons, there's just more selective pressure to develop certain skills because the environment they live in is so complicated and changing. Now, this is on from a geological evolutionary timescale, very, very small. So we could say that the raccoons that have gotten really good or have developed this really interesting skill, they're not a different species but we will apply special protections to them.

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