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A place for raccoons migrating from reddit.

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[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 83 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The reason for this behavior is actually much more interesting than you might think!

Raccoons have the most sensitive sense of touch of any animal known other than primates. Over two thirds of the sensory processing power of a raccoon's brain are dedicated to its sense of touch, while the critter's tiny hands are packed with over ten times the number of nerve endings as a human hand.

These very sensitive hands develop a thin protective barrier over time- sort of like a callous— but the layer is softened by water.

When a raccoon dips its hands into water, it can feel with perfect acuity. A raccoon will explore its food, memorizing and savoring its texture to learn about it and to be better able to identify and search for it in the future.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don’t know if this is true, but I’m upvoting it anyway, just in case…

[–] thirteene@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

racoon washing cotton candy This lil guy learned not to wash cotton candy

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 23 points 1 week ago

He is a wizard.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

god i fucking detest these articles that have to interrupt every other sentence with a massive image

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Does that mean they like being petted more than any other animal? :O

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Try it out and update us 😊

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Worst that can happen, he gets to be America's healthcare minister.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How did you come to that conclusion by reading that?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"They have the most sensitive sense of touch."

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

As in, them touching stuff. They might hate high fives though. You should go check!