{"id":45716,"date":"2014-10-11T00:04:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T06:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/11\/the-tale-of-the-city-raccoon-and-the-country-raccoon.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T13:24:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:24:33","slug":"the-tale-of-the-city-raccoon-and-the-country-raccoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/11\/the-tale-of-the-city-raccoon-and-the-country-raccoon.html","title":{"rendered":"The Tale of the City Raccoon and the Country Raccoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raccoons are disturbingly clever. And, apparently, we&#39;re making them more that way.<\/p>\n<p>(Perhaps our future is not a Planet of the Apes, but a Planet of the Raccoons.)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+George Wiman<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Cities are apparently making raccoons smarter, by giving them progressively more complicated problems to solve, coupled with meaningful rewards. A model for education?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/18\/genius\/the-intelligent-life-of-the-city-raccoon'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/0rw066ByilLMUzPBqkOUymT1Q1ne4dlY05TMkhc__wtm1786h93fnEX9GdlH22V3u06P8EEEZy_GMNH3t7hJgcevdHlancchdwoq9yely52f=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/18\/genius\/the-intelligent-life-of-the-city-raccoon'>The Intelligent Life of the City Raccoon &#8211; Issue 18: Genius &#8211; Nautilus<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nToronto resident Simon Treadwell wheeled a garbage bin onto a snow-bound lot next to his property one evening this past winter. Inside&hellip;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/CsPeyNJCNFb'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raccoons are disturbingly clever. And, apparently, we&#39;re making them more that way. (Perhaps our future is not a Planet of the Apes, but a Planet of the Raccoons.) Originally shared by +George Wiman: Cities are apparently making raccoons smarter, by giving them progressively more complicated problems to solve, coupled with meaningful rewards. A model for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/11\/the-tale-of-the-city-raccoon-and-the-country-raccoon.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Tale of the City Raccoon and the Country Raccoon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5302,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/09\/raccoon_stories.html","url_meta":{"origin":45716,"position":0},"title":"Raccoon Stories","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 9-Apr-04 8:49am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Real Live Preacher vs. The Raccoons. 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