Trash pandas: Volunteer your backyard for a UBC raccoon study
Raccoon sticking its tongue out
August 14, 2023
Professor Dr. Sarah Benson-Amram (forestry; science) and graduate student Hannah Griebling (forestry) are looking to learn more about how raccoons’ brains work.
“We are very interested in trying to understand how raccoons are able to live in cities alongside people, and we think that cognition, or their intelligence, may be one of the main reasons why they’re so successful,” said Benson-Amram.
If you are interested in volunteering your yard, email urban.wildlife [at] ubc.ca
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