Learn how motion sensors and GPS tracking uncovered how raccoons weigh risk against reward. Raccoons are often cast as fearless opportunists, thriving wherever humans leave food behind. But new ...

Only one substrate is almost as fun as snow when it comes to exploring the forest and tracking animals, and that is mud. Right now Oklahoma has plenty of soft, slippery, sticky mud. It's everywhere, ...

A new study from the St. Louis Zoo Institute for Conservation Medicine sheds light on the lives of 10 racoons in Forest Park, including a particularly adventurous forager named “Frankie.” ...

Raccoons in a large city park avoid busy roads, showing how traffic shapes animal movement and quietly divides urban wildlife spaces.

A new study led by researchers from Saint Louis University, the Saint Louis Zoo, and partner organizations recently set out to understand how raccoons use space in one of the nation's largest urban ...

Raccoons are developing pet-like features, with Scientific American citing a peer-reviewed study that found urban raccoons have shorter snouts than rural ones — an early hallmark of domestication. “If ...

I know I have raccoons in my neighborhood, but I have never seen one in my backyard. My trail camera has caught them ambling through the woods at night (they are nocturnal). My neighbor has some ...

A new study has shown that Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication. The University of Arkansas found that urban ...

Sage Morgan, 3, holds up an item for Frances Slocum State Park naturalist Kathy Kelchner to see during a Raccoon Day event for children at the Kingston Township Park Saturday morning. Sage came to the ...

KINGSTON TOWNSHIP – It isn’t every day that you get to hold raccoon poop in your hands. But that’s what a group of preschoolers got to do at Frances Slocum State Park Saturday.