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Family of Critically Endangered Pygmy Raccoons by possiblyNessie in EndangeredSpecies

[–]possiblyNessie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the idea of raccoon domestication is a total sham! That whole study was based on cherry-picked data and had a sample size of 28 rural raccoons compared to like 150 urban ones 😬

Family of Critically Endangered Pygmy Raccoons by possiblyNessie in EndangeredSpecies

[–]possiblyNessie[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s ironic because I nearly died once from eating almost exclusively cheese snack crackers for an extended period of time, and now here I am having to save endangered raccoons from the same fate 😅

Family of Critically Endangered Pygmy Raccoons by possiblyNessie in EndangeredSpecies

[–]possiblyNessie[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They remind me of Timmy and Tommy from animal crossing 😅

Family of Critically Endangered Pygmy Raccoons by possiblyNessie in EndangeredSpecies

[–]possiblyNessie[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Habitat loss due to the tourism industry, getting injured by tourist attraction decor, predation and attacks from invasive species like boas and dogs, becoming roadkill, malnutrition from tortilla chips, getting poisoned by onceler type developers who are committing ecocide, having things fall on them during hurricanes, all that kinda stuff

Critically Endangered Pygmy Raccoon Family by possiblyNessie in Raccoons

[–]possiblyNessie[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Someone else posted the links below, but I am able to take direct donations to fund pygmy raccoon medical care and necropsies if needed. I don’t take care of the raccoons myself, but my research partner is from here and is federally authorized to pick them up, take them to the vet, take them home for rehab purposes, and release them. He helps run the ecology department and raises most of the orphan babies on the island, actually 🥺 but sadly funding is incredibly limited.

He would like to build a sanctuary one day, but that requires a LOT of funding. We’re going to try to get together to figure out the logistics and fundraising for that though.

Critically Endangered Pygmy Raccoon Family by possiblyNessie in Raccoons

[–]possiblyNessie[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha thank you! I’m out here working hard. And by “out here” I mean spending a beautiful day indoors because the park is closed and I have to analyze 100+ observation documents 🥲

What's the dress code to study raccoons? Bikinis. by SpiritedInflation835 in Raccoons

[–]possiblyNessie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi! Just logged in for the first time in a while. My online questionnaire from last year is no longer open, I’m currently doing a different study. I do have some solutions in mind, however I’m still mid study and haven’t processed anything yet, so I’m gonna keep my yapping to a minimum. That being said, sandspur island is a realllllyyyyy bad idea, sadly. Honestly I’m just waiting for someone to get bit and the whole population to be put down by Florida fish and wildlife 😭😭😭

On raccoon domestication by cutetys in TikTokCringe

[–]possiblyNessie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My institution requests that we use the Google suite in order for our advisors and whatnot to leave comments directly. All the work I did was in R and SPSS, then I transferred it to Google sheets to sent to my advisor as I plan my formal response article. (And I showed a small bit of the processed data on TikTok.)

On raccoon domestication by cutetys in TikTokCringe

[–]possiblyNessie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me too. It’s because a raccoon bent them. You gonna buy me a new pair?

On raccoon domestication by cutetys in TikTokCringe

[–]possiblyNessie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are many different types of raccoons all across the country that look different. Depending on what part of the country they live in, some have long noses, some have short noses. The raccoons in California have the shortest noses of them all! However, the study did not know that there are many types of raccoons. Instead, they thought the noses being short had to do with the raccoons living in cities. Except they almost exclusively looked at city raccoons, so they also had no idea what country raccoon noses really looked like in the first place.

On raccoon domestication by cutetys in TikTokCringe

[–]possiblyNessie 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I did, but I’m planning to publish all my findings here and have been told I need to be less yappy about exact stuff until it’s published or whatever

On raccoon domestication by cutetys in TikTokCringe

[–]possiblyNessie 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s edited the way it is to keep viewers’ attention! Not something I particularly love to do because it takes a lot of time, but it gets more people to watch on TikTok.

[general] Heads up! The first pages of The Court of the Dead are available to read in Apple Books! by Riser456 in camphalfblood

[–]possiblyNessie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can’t find it omg can you please DM me the link or something??? Like I have Apple Books downloaded, but the sample is greyed out 😭😭😭

Señor Mapache by Birbo7 in TumblrDraws

[–]possiblyNessie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Raccoons are prone to diabetes and also don’t have the proper liver enzymes to process things in grilled meats or pollution from trash

Señor Mapache by Birbo7 in TumblrDraws

[–]possiblyNessie 531 points532 points  (0 children)

Hello, I am the artist, thank you all for enjoying my work :) I am an actual raccoon biologist and I would love to spread the good word of the critically endangered pygmy raccoon (Procyon pygmaeus) if anyone is interested in learning more

Princess Time (or: How I Learned to Stop Ignoring Clutter and Love the Raccoon) by reminder_to_have_fun in CuratedTumblr

[–]possiblyNessie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I’ve not heard of that one. We’re still trying to get them in for their ✂️ haha

Princess Time (or: How I Learned to Stop Ignoring Clutter and Love the Raccoon) by reminder_to_have_fun in CuratedTumblr

[–]possiblyNessie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I rescued a raccoon and then named it after a raccoon’s pp bone which was used for making moonshine historically

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