City-dwelling raccoons are physically changing as they adapt to human environments. They are, however, still wild animals.

Raccoons living in America’s cities may be showing early indications of what scientists call “domestication syndrome.” ...

In 2025, a University of Arkansas at Little Rock study found that raccoons from urban environments have begun to show signs of domestication. Rating: True (About this rating?) Context: Researchers ...

Evolutionary biologist Pamela Yeh and animal domestication expert Raffaela Lesch join Host Flora Lichtman to discuss how ...

The earliest domesticated animals played a crucial role in shaping human societies, providing companionship, labor, food, and protection long before written history. Archaeological evidence and ...

The clever, adaptable urban raccoon may be evolving a shorter snout — a key physical trait of pets and other domesticated animals. The new finding describes what a biologist says could be the first ...

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 ...

We obtained 46 pairs of pig and wild boar data and 59 pairs of chicken and red junglefowl data from public databases. By integrating and analyzing these data, we conducted comparative analyses of ...

The clever, adaptable urban raccoon may be evolving a shorter snout — a key physical trait of pets and other domesticated animals. The new finding describes what a biologist says could be the first ...