New paper from my former PhD student Raffaela Lesch's lab used a citizen science database to show that urban racoons, who arerapidly becoming less afraid of humans, also have shorter snouts than wild-type rural racoons.
Link: rdcu.be/eRcpT
Not only do urban raccoons have shorter snouts than rural ones, but the snout length also is dependent on climate! Colder climate have overall longer snouts than warm climates. So: maybe in a few thousand years we don’t just have dog beds and cat trees, but also raccoon trees/beds in our homes!
