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Speaker 1: Do we have raccoons in Australia.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think we do.

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Speaker 1: What's our equivalent of possum?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd say to be a possum.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is an interesting story about raccoons in the States.

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Speaker 1: Then a new study from the University of Arkansas Little Rock.

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Speaker 3: That's we got the Clinton that time of Baba well,

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Speaker 3: yes and missus Bubba Missus Bubba missus Clinton President and

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Speaker 3: Secretary of State, all of that.

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Speaker 1: But they found that urban raccoons have snouts that are

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Speaker 1: three point five percent shorter than rural ones. And what

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Speaker 1: this means is that this is signs of early domestication.

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Speaker 1: Research suggests that living around humans and relying on human trash,

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Speaker 1: this favors raccoons that are karma that are more tolerant

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Speaker 1: traits associated with tameness. So this also may relate to

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Speaker 1: neural crest domestification. Barbers with science words, sorry, what happens

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Speaker 1: is that. And I was talking you through what happened

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Speaker 1: with dogs when they were domesticated. The muzzles are shorter,

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Speaker 1: which is what we are seeing in these city raccoons right.

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Speaker 1: So when the animals, when dogs were domesticated, this is

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Speaker 1: the same thing that happened when they went from wolves

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Speaker 1: to being dogs. There were skull and facial changes, shorter

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Speaker 1: snouts because dogs wanted. If a dog is a lap dog,

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Speaker 1: and those dogs like Pickanese and things that are bred

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Speaker 1: to sit on your lap, they've been bred to have

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Speaker 1: much shorter snouts and big eyes so that they can

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Speaker 1: sit on your lap and look you in the face.

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Speaker 2: And you see more of more of them getting pushed

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Speaker 2: around in prams. Now, yeah, do you do you think

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Speaker 2: like saying one hundred years time or more would be

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Speaker 2: like a thousand years top. Well, these dogs being capable

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Speaker 2: of walking, now.

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Speaker 1: They're being pushed around in prams because they're elderly dogs.

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Speaker 1: Dogs And I learn this from Chris Brown. Dogs like

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Speaker 1: to be high up, and so if you want your

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Speaker 1: dog to have an outing but it's too old to walk,

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Speaker 1: you put it in a pram. I have new sympathy

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Speaker 1: for that. Now I've got an older dog, but also

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Speaker 1: dogs like mine. She's a Border Collie. She's got a

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Speaker 1: bit of a longer snout. German shepherds. All those dogs

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Speaker 1: that have long snouts. When you talk to them and

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Speaker 1: say do you want to go for a walkers at

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Speaker 1: time for dinner, they will move their head from side

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Speaker 1: to side when they look at you because they are

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Speaker 1: trying to look around their own snout to read your

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Speaker 1: facial expressions. So dogs that are bred to be lap

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Speaker 1: dogs sit on your lap and are much and read

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Speaker 1: that much more easily. So Animals that have shorter snouts

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Speaker 1: are more cuddly cozy. So these animals also are having

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Speaker 1: a smaller body sized. Wolves were big. We forget how

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Speaker 1: big they were. Dogs became smaller. Their ears dropped. Floppy

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Speaker 1: ears is a sign of friendliness. A lot of this

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Speaker 1: stuff was changes that made them friendlier, cuter, and more

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Speaker 1: puppy like. That's what we've bred into these dogs that

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Speaker 1: started as wolves. Because they are less aggressive, they are cuter.

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Speaker 1: And one of the things too, is they canal their guts,

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Speaker 1: can handle human food and cooked foods rather just tearing

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Speaker 1: around meat in the wild, so they are less aggressive.

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Speaker 1: Their faces are less aggressive, their teeth are smaller, and

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Speaker 1: now they're starting to see all of that in raccoons.

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Speaker 1: Would you have a pet.

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Speaker 2: Raccoon, Well, they're not here, but I follow some life.

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Speaker 2: I probably have well over a possum. Yeah, I got

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Speaker 2: possums everywhere around here. But I follow a whole.

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Speaker 1: Lot of sights on social media sites of people who

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Speaker 1: animals walk in and they're injured and they look after them.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people do look after injured or orphaned

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Speaker 1: raccoons and end up sort of sitting at the table

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Speaker 1: with them and eating out of the fruit ball and

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Speaker 1: part of the family.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, when I was in Western Australia, there was a

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Speaker 2: family up there. They'd always look after injured kangaroos. Little

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Speaker 2: kangaroos and they grow in a big musclies. Well then yeah,

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Speaker 2: they and they can rip you a part of you.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about Michael Jackson's chimp. People who buy

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Speaker 1: little chimps have a lot of trouble when they reach adolescents,

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Speaker 1: and Bubbles had to be shipped off somewhere.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Bubbles was going to parties with Michael Jackson.

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Speaker 2: Was he remember that? You were telling me that we

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Speaker 2: went to the parties and Apparently he held court.

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Speaker 1: Apparently he was far more social than Michael was. People

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Speaker 1: wanted to talk to Bubbles rather than Michaels.

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Speaker 2: Because Michael's hurling the feces round God. Liz Taylor right

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Speaker 2: in the mush, you can see it. More on the

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