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Speaker 1: Researchers are now saying that raccoons may be inching closer

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Speaker 1: to becoming domestic pets.

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Speaker 2: Raccoons. No, no, no, no, no no no.

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Speaker 1: Study from the University of Arkansas Department of Biology found

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Speaker 1: that raccoons are physically changing over time because they're interacting

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Speaker 1: more with humans and their faces are evolving. They actually

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Speaker 1: look cuter. No, they're not doing as much dumpster diving.

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Speaker 1: They're less disease ridden.

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Speaker 2: One biologist, they're less disease ridden.

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Speaker 1: To be fair, we say that about Matt bhar I mean,

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Speaker 1: one biologist says. Quote, once wild animals start spending time

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Speaker 1: in the proximity of people, they become a little bit

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Speaker 1: less afraid and perhaps even start showing physical signs of

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Speaker 1: domestication syndrome.

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Speaker 2: Is that domestication syndrome right term. We have a couple

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Speaker 2: of coons living under our deck and at night sometimes

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Speaker 2: I'll see them out like feeding under grass, and I'll

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Speaker 2: pund on the window, get out.

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Speaker 1: Of here, go and get great moments and shooing away

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Speaker 1: raccoons history, and they.

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Speaker 2: Turn around and look at me like I'm a big

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Speaker 2: a hole and just go back to doing what they're doing,

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Speaker 2: which is feeding.

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Speaker 1: I don't think raccoons had middle fingers, but I think

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Speaker 1: I just saw one. It's the Hammer and Nigel Show.