Raccoon Teaches Environmental Science

A raccoon just aced my environmental science exam and I'm not even mad about it.

Last week I caught this trash panda in our school dumpster at midnight, surrounded by recycling

bins like they were study materials. But here's the wild part. He wasn't eating

garbage. He was sorting it. Plastic in one pile, paper in another, organizing our school's

waste better than the janitors ever did. I started filming and this little

genius stacked three textbooks on his head, perfectly balanced, like he was demonstrating

the delicate balance of ecosystems. Then it hit me. We spend hours in class learning about

habitat conservation while this raccoon was literally living it, teaching us that