玩具制作浣熊：幼崽互教制作球类

Pygmy raccoons teach each other to make toys YOUNG pygmy raccoons on a Mexican island have been seen teaching each other to make balls out of rubbish, in a rare example of animals crafting objects purely to play with. “My first reaction was, oh my gosh, that’s absolutely adorable!” says Nessie O’Neil at Miami University in Ohio, who is researching the impact of tourism on the critically endangered pygmy raccoons (Procyon pygmaeus) of Cozumel Island. O’Neil filmed as one of the younger raccoons fished paper out of a rubbish bin, dipped it in a bowl of water and rolled it in sand, making a ball (Wild, doi.org/rm5p). …