Raccoon boot camp in the US teaches abandoned kits survival skills

Priest carrying a clingy raccoon kit at the camp. — Photos: AP

Muddy, sweat-soaked and occasionally bloody, the dedicated staff at a wildlife centre in Mississippi, United States are drill sergeants. And their soldiers? Baby raccoons.

Welcome to raccoon boot camp, where the goal is to help sick or injured animals learn to survive in the south Mississippi wilderness – a skill set they would have learned from their mothers, most of whom died or were separated from their kits by storms, traffic accidents or other traumatic events.

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营地里，一位牧师抱着一只黏人的浣熊。——图片：美联社

在美国密西西比州的一家野生动物中心，敬业的工作人员浑身泥泞、汗流浃背，有时甚至沾满血迹，他们就像训练教官一样。而他们的士兵呢？是小浣熊。

欢迎来到浣熊训练营，这里的目标是帮助生病或受伤的动物学习如何在密西西比州南部荒野中生存——这是一项它们本应从母亲那里学到的技能，但它们的母亲大多死于暴风雨、交通事故或其他创伤性事件，或者与幼崽失散。

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