Raccoon therapy is the latest way to beat stress in Russia. A center in St. Petersburg claims interacting with the creatures improves mood. In a small room in the center of St Petersburg, raccoons ...

In recent years however, as raccoons have increasingly moved, like roving packs of A24 t-shirt wearing kombucha brewers, into urban neighborhoods, the need to understand them has increased.

After ensuring no mother raccoon was nearby, the officer bundled the baby in a warm blanket and called Leyden Center for Wildlife Rehabilitation in Leyden, Mass., where the raccoon is now recovering.

But they said the data confirmed that animals believed to be susceptible to the virus, like raccoon dogs and masked palm civets, a small Asian mammal implicated in the SARS outbreak two decades ...