Hannah Griebling

Oh, thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah.

There are only a few of us out there.

We do.

Yeah.

No, I actually, I know them all.

Half of them were my Latinates.

So we all get along pretty darn well, actually.

Yeah, yeah.

So it's definitely something where we are still learning so much about them, exactly how smart they are, because there really hasn't been a lot of formal research done with raccoons and their cognitive abilities.

So there were some researchers in the early 1900s that attempted to make them lab animals, like rats and pigeons were used for cognition studies.

And they kept...

True to raccoon form, they kept escaping their enclosures and causing lots of problems for the researchers.

So they were kind of given up on as a research species for quite a bit of time.

And then now technology has kind of caught up to where we have all these really great night vision cameras.

We have

really cool, you know, microchips that we can use to permanently identify them.

And so the research now into raccoon cognition has really started expanding in the last, you know, 20-ish years, which is really exciting as a scientist.

And I'm so sorry, I forgot your original question.