• dustyData@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I recently learned that raccoon’s instinctive act of putting in water food given to them when in captivity is called dabbling.

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      10 months ago

      Do they only do this in captivity and not in the wild? If so, how come?

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        10 months ago

        They typically pull food out of water, fish and amphibians from river beds. So the captivity thing is a glitch in their instinct. They do dabble food when they pick it from the ground in the wild, but it’s way less frequent.