Raccoon Thanksgiving

浣熊感恩节

99% Invisible

艺术

2024-11-27

27 分钟
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After Toronto unveiled its "raccoon-resistant" compost bins in 2016, some people feared the animals would be starved but many more celebrated the innovative design. Rolling out this novel locked bin opened a new battlefront in city's ongoing "war on raccoons."

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  • This is 99% invisible.

  • I'm Roman Mars.

  • Every November, Americans gather together to celebrate important traditions.

  • Shopping for doorbuster deals on 72 inch TVs, watching Snoopy Balloons float down 6th Avenue.

  • And we eat a lot of food.

  • Lots of food means lots of food waste.

  • And so after your Thanksgiving, you might find yourself hosting an unwanted second gathering.

  • Raccoons rummaging in your garbage for discarded turkey and uneaten yams.

  • Today, we're presenting a remixed all time favorite story we ran for Thanksgiving 2018.

  • It's about our friendly neighbors up north and their attempt to defend themselves from an invading army of trash pandas.

  • Enjoy.

  • The city of Toronto has a special relationship with raccoons.

  • Or at least they think they do.

  • We are not the only city with raccoons, but we often act like we are.

  • We like to think Toronto is the raccoon capital of the world.

  • And we're strangely proud of that distinction.

  • But we really have no data to back it up.

  • This is Amy Dempsey, a reporter for the Toronto Star.

  • Do we have more raccoons than, say, Chicago or Vancouver?

  • Well, we don't actually know.