Episode
Lifeslices: Raccoon Friends Among Us
- Podcast
- Lifeslices with Steve Fisher
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- Feb 16, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1816
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Summary
Estimates of when dogs became domesticated range from 20,000 to 130,000 years ago. Cats 9,000-10,000 years ago. What’s next? According to Raffaella Lesch, an assistant professor of Biology at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, it just might be raccoons. Dr. Lesch joins host Steve Fisher to talk about why we might just be seeing new Raccoon Friends Among Us.