The Guardian

Raccoons living wild in cities in the United States are beginning to show physical changes that resemble early signs of domestication, with researchers finding a 3.56% snout reduction between rural to urban raccoons as urban raccoons’ shorter snouts and calmer reactions to people mirror traits found in domesticated animals across species. The study says city trash and close contact with densely populated human environments creates distinct selection pressures favoring friendly and tame individuals, though a wildlife ecologist cautioned we’ll have to see with more evidence and with other studies if it’s actually a pathway to domestication or not.

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