"A liquor store employee in Virginia was startled on Saturday to discover smashed whisky bottles on the floor of the shop and, upon entering the bathroom, an apparently drunk, sleeping and spread-eagled raccoon. He fell through one of the ceiling tiles and went on a full-blown rampage, drinking everything, Samantha Martin, an local animal control officer, told the Daily Mail. The Hanover county animal protection and shelter confirmed the raccoon was drunk and said it had since become sober."
"After a few hours of sleep and zero signs of injury (other than maybe a hangover and poor life choices), he was safely released back to the wild, hopefully having learned that breaking and entering is not the answer, the agency said. Raccoons have adapted to living in urban areas to such an extent that they are now showing physical changes that resemble early signs of domestication, a recent study found."
A raccoon fell through a ceiling tile into a Virginia liquor store, drank smashed whisky bottles, and was later found asleep and intoxicated in the bathroom. The raccoon slept, showed no injuries, sobered after several hours, and was safely released back into the wild. Urban raccoons are exhibiting physical changes resembling early domestication, including shorter snouts compared with wild counterparts. These animals thrive on human refuse as an easy food source, tolerating human presence rather than showing aggression to access discarded food. Alcohol consumption occurs widely in nature, especially among animals that consume sugary fruits and nectar.
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]