SciShow: Raccoons Don’t Really Wash Their Food

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Content of the Lesson: Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try out Brilliant’s Daily Challenges. The first 200 subscribers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. Raccoons are famous for "washing" their food, but this behavior, called dousing, isn't really about cleanliness. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230159544_A_critical_re-examination_of_food_washing_behaviour_in_the_raccoon_Procyon_lotor_Linn https://www.dwds.de/wb/Waschb%C3%A4r https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1094919409000036 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/07367228609144598 https://books.google.com/books/about/Raccoons.html?id=vnhVibvnzvIC Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Procyon_lotor_7_-_am_Wasser.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:California_Raccoon.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mm_Hand.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raccoon_in_bayou.jpg


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