Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. My Backyard Birding set up a camera in their yard, focused on a small basin of water they picked up at a flea market. They thought ...

Raccoons are incredibly smart animals and quick learners, often able to open doors, cupboards, and just about anything else after watching a human do it once or twice. At a wildlife sanctuary, three ...

The days of trash-talking raccoons may be coming to an end. A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Zoology found that city-dwelling raccoons are showing early signs of domestication — and ...

If raccoons are wild animals, why are they so darn cute? If that’s a question you’ve ever asked yourself while looking at a picture of the furry urban dwellers with their beady eyes and tiny paws, you ...