
Amazing Raccoon Climbing Stories
With the popularity of smartphones and viral videos that have captured amazing feats, more people are seeing firsthand some astonishing stories of fearless raccoon climbers. These stories demonstrate the ingenuity of these animals and show why it's necessary to take steps to keep them out of your garbage and pet areas. In June 2018, video of an adventurous raccoon spread like wildfire across the internet. The raccoon was spotted scaling a 23-story building in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota. When the raccoon ended up on the roof of the building, animal control staff needed to come up and trap the animal to get it back to safety. Experts speculate that the raccoon may have been trying to hide from humans by climbing up the building. Another example of one of these climbing critters happened in September 2018 in Ocean City, New Jersey. In the viral video, a raccoon climbed up a nine-story concrete building and then launched itself off into the soft sand down below. It then ran off unharmed from the fall.
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