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Place a bowl of water outside for your pet, and chances are a raccoon will come along and wash its hands in it — after ransacking your trash cans, of course.
To be fair, a raccoon simply exploits its environment. Since it’s an omnivore, a raccoon feeds on a wide variety of food — grubs, insects, nuts, veggies, not to mention garbage and compost. Like all urban wildlife, raccoons have adapted to city life. Coyotes might be desert dwellers, but like raccoons they dine on the urban buffet, as do many other wild animals — some new to the city landscape, like peregrine falcons, and some established city dwellers, like house sparrows. Turn the page and meet your wild neighbors…
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8.
Game Theory
Predict which team will win a hockey game and amaze your friends!
9. Life on Mars
The quest to prove life could exist on Mars just got a boost.
10. Carnivorous Ghost Slugs and Other New Species
Drum roll please... the annual New Species List is out and aren't they cute?
13. Wild in the City
Your neighborhood is full of life, much more than the human variety. Urban wildlife roams the streets from backyard gardens to city parks to skyscrapers.
23. Kids... Try This at Home!
Entice birds to your neighborhood wit this easy-to-build feeder.
Departments
4. Science and Technology Watch
• Chimp tools, the life on skin, and more!
26. Eye on the Sky
• Telescopes
27. Five Things
• Toucan Bills
28. Science Photo of the Month
• Light Graffiti
29 . Hot or Not
30. Comic Captions & Brain Bumpers
On The Cover
This raccoon was rummagin through a garbage can in a large city park in broad daylight. At one point, it disappeared almost entirely into the can, and emerged with a piece of cheese in its mouth. Read more about urban wildlife starting on page 13.
(Photo by David Garrison)
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