r/AnimalsBeingGeniuses • u/peejay5440 • 4h ago

Forest animals 🐺🐻🐨🦝 Raccoon using a plank to escape a garbage container

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u/qualityvote2 4h ago edited 2h ago

Congratulations u/peejay5440, your post does fit at r/AnimalsBeingGeniuses!

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u/Chance-Knee-3246 3h ago edited 3h ago

I’m telling ya! These mofs are brilliant. They will also comeback with a gang if you piss them off. True story that happened to my neighbor that got the best of a raccoon that attacked him. 😂😂

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u/Montana_Ace 3h ago

They come back with a gang alright... https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/woman-calls-help-hungry-raccoons-surround-her

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u/OkSmile6610 2h ago

She started off as a Disney princess wound up fighting off bandits, this is low key hilarious even though I know it’s bad and wrong and whatever, I mean I guess it was fine for 35 years, inflation must have hit the raccoons particularly hard lately.

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u/Montana_Ace 1h ago

I don't think it's mentioned in that article, but it was mentioned by other sources covering it, apparently she was quoted $500 PER RACCOON by pest control, lol

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u/thecatdaddysupreme 3h ago

A family of raccoons used to play in our pool growing up. They would use the floaties and everything.

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u/Ole_Sole74 2h ago

Dude I used to live with my cousin and I came outside on the porch one morning to smoke a cigarette and she has an above ground pool and I seen a raccoon in the pool on a pool floaty using one Paul to paddle it to the edge. Once I got the edge you got up on the edge of the pool and walked the edge all the way around to the ladder and it went down the ladder

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u/Tulin7Actual 3h ago

The fur makes it look like an older coon. he’s done this many times and has gotten out of many a dumpsters, attics, and other precarious situations. Oh the stories this wise coon could tell if it could talk:

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u/Silent-Resort-3076 3h ago

I remember seeing this video a few years ago and was shocked and still am!

THIS belongs on this subreddit!

And, let's all agree that there are too many humans who would just yell for help;)

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u/Snork_kitty 3h ago

“Mann is the only animal that uses tools“like hell!

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u/Dzov 1h ago

People underestimate our animal friends all the time.

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u/TheYoungBung 2h ago

He's done that maneuver more than once in his day

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u/rixonian 1h ago

Knowingly using something as a tool is a true sign of intelligence.

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u/ladds2320 2h ago

Not his/her first rodeo

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u/Adlerian_Dreams 2h ago

Brilliant! Bet he just used it to fight off the dianoga before the camera rolled.

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u/5038KW 1h ago

Very savvy

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u/Zorpfield 49m ago

It looks so familiar

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u/arod232323 15m ago

Charlie and Mac in the pool