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Congratulations to our second winner of our “Walk on the Wild Side” quiz!
Andrea Casula from Glen Ellyn and a brand new member in July 2009, posted the correct response to this question:
Even without thumbs a raccoon can easily:
a. open a pop-top soda can
b. button a shirt
c. unlock doors
d. hitchhike
Andrea and a number of other participants correctly selected answer c, unlock doors. Many tree talk respondents answered “a,” open a pop-top soda can. It’s a debatable option! There is little doubt that a raccoon, properly motivated, would be able to rip open a typical soda can with it’s extremely sharp claws. Because of the ongoing discussion and the firmly-held convictions of so many or our readers, we included all correct “a” and “c” answers in the drawing.
Andrea won an Arboretum apple green insulated logo picnic tote AND one of our Arboretum 
signature logo blankets - a $125 value! Make sure you try your luck at quiz #3.
Andrea told us: “I am so excited to have won! I took some of my grandchildren to the Arboretum and we so enjoyed looking at all the animal houses and taking pictures of them. One of my granddaughters and I were looking at the website, and we entered the contest and wow, we won! I can’t wait to tell her! She’ll be thrilled. We are excited to be members and looking forward to many more visits. The Animal House exhibition was wonderful! I enjoyed it as much as my grandchildren. My husband and I are looking forward to walking the many trails at the Arboretum.”
We thank Andrea and her husband Chris for their continued support of The Morton Arboretum
The Sara Lee Foundation is the Healthy Lifestyles supporting sponsor of Animal Houses.
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July 1st, 2009 at 5:36 pm
c
July 5th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
c
July 11th, 2009 at 7:07 am
c
July 11th, 2009 at 7:12 am
a
July 11th, 2009 at 7:18 am
C. Unlock doors
July 11th, 2009 at 7:19 am
a
July 11th, 2009 at 7:19 am
c
July 11th, 2009 at 7:30 am
Even without thumbs a raccoon can: (a) open a soda can.
July 11th, 2009 at 7:30 am
a
July 11th, 2009 at 7:40 am
I would think almost all of the above, but I’ll go for a.
July 11th, 2009 at 7:41 am
a – open a soda can
July 11th, 2009 at 7:43 am
Raccoons are very smart and are able to open doors without the use of an opposable thumb!
Answer is C.
July 11th, 2009 at 7:44 am
a- open a soda can
July 11th, 2009 at 7:44 am
A open a soda can
July 11th, 2009 at 7:56 am
a. – open a soda can
July 11th, 2009 at 8:02 am
c
July 11th, 2009 at 8:08 am
a) open a soda can
July 11th, 2009 at 8:09 am
I would think open a soda can, they have sharp nails A
July 11th, 2009 at 8:10 am
I believe the answer is “A” although those little critters can do quite a bit.
July 11th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Oh, it must a be “a” is my guess.
July 11th, 2009 at 8:43 am
A
July 11th, 2009 at 8:45 am
A) Open a pop-top soda can.
July 11th, 2009 at 8:48 am
a-open a soda can
July 11th, 2009 at 8:59 am
I’m going to say “A”. They are pretty resourceful.
July 11th, 2009 at 9:02 am
C
July 11th, 2009 at 9:05 am
a
July 11th, 2009 at 9:14 am
I think it’s A.
July 11th, 2009 at 9:48 am
I believe a but since everyone likes that answer i will guess d hitchhike can’t everyone
July 11th, 2009 at 9:55 am
C. doorknobs
July 11th, 2009 at 10:29 am
My answer is C – unlock doors
but I believe both a and c are correct
July 11th, 2009 at 10:57 am
a. Open a pop-top soda can. I’m a new member and love the Arboretum.
July 11th, 2009 at 11:09 am
I believe the answer is A. However, I think they are smart enough to unlock doors. Have a great day in the sunshine.
July 11th, 2009 at 11:27 am
a. open a pop-top soda can
July 11th, 2009 at 11:45 am
a. Open a pop-top soda can
and a metal garbage can filled with bird seed, topped with a brick. In our case, it just slid the brick off and opened the can anyway. We now have bunji cords on our metal cans as well as bricks.
July 11th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
A
July 11th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
a
July 11th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
a. Open a pop-top soda can.
July 11th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
A, open a soda can. They have no problem opening our garbage cans, so a soda can should be easy.
July 11th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
My answer is A. But they can also unlock doors depending on the type of lock.
July 11th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
c
July 11th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
A. Open a can, I think the raccoon in the Disney Pocahontis movie opened something like a can.
July 11th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
a. Open a pop-top soda.
July 11th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
c
July 11th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
B. button a shirt
July 11th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
C. unlock doors
July 11th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
A – open a soda can, but depending on the type of door and lock, they might be able to open it.
July 11th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
a
July 11th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
open a soda can but could probably do all of the above
July 11th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
(a) open a soda can.
July 11th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
C
July 11th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
a – open a soda can
July 11th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
A. Open a soda can
July 11th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
a.
July 11th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
My granddaughter (7 years old) and I both think the answer is c (unlock doors), but we think a raccoon could probably do everything on the list except hitchhike!
July 11th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
A
July 11th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
c
July 11th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
a open a soda can. I just wonder if they are picky about what flavor…
July 11th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
c
July 11th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
a
July 11th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
a, open a soda (pop) can.
July 11th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
C – those raccoons can be pretty curious and very determined!
July 11th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
a – open a pop-top soda can
July 12th, 2009 at 4:28 am
a- they can open up doors when they want to
July 12th, 2009 at 6:12 am
c
July 12th, 2009 at 6:33 am
a
July 12th, 2009 at 8:15 am
c. Unlock Doors
July 12th, 2009 at 9:02 am
a
July 12th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Answer a
July 12th, 2009 at 11:05 am
c. open doors
July 12th, 2009 at 11:08 am
c. unlock a door.
July 12th, 2009 at 11:12 am
a- open a pop-top soda can
July 12th, 2009 at 11:34 am
I think raccoons can (a)open a pop-top soda can.
July 12th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
a.
open a soda can
July 12th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
a
July 12th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
a. clever little critters
July 12th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
c
July 12th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
c
July 12th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
C
July 12th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
a – definitely can open a soda can!
July 12th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
C
They can open the door of an outdoor bird pen (housing orphaned baby ducks- unfortunately). This had a latch similar to a dog kennel. I think they can probably get in to about anything if they are hungry enough.
July 12th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
c
July 13th, 2009 at 7:10 am
C
July 13th, 2009 at 7:43 am
a
July 13th, 2009 at 7:52 am
(A) Open a pop can
July 13th, 2009 at 8:18 am
A
July 13th, 2009 at 8:31 am
C
July 13th, 2009 at 8:33 am
A
July 13th, 2009 at 9:08 am
A
July 13th, 2009 at 9:21 am
a.
July 13th, 2009 at 10:03 am
A – Open a soda can
July 13th, 2009 at 11:01 am
A
They can do a lot with those hands. Their name “raccoon” comes from the Indian word “aracun” which means – one who scratches with his hands. They have over 10 thousand more nerve endings in their fingers than we do- no wonder they have to touch everything!!!
July 13th, 2009 at 11:55 am
a
July 13th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
c
July 13th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
A – open a pop-top soda can
July 13th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
One Raccoon could easily open one pop-top soda can
July 13th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
a
July 13th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
c
July 13th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
I choose A
July 13th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
A
July 13th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
A
July 13th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
A
July 14th, 2009 at 2:38 am
c.
July 14th, 2009 at 6:29 am
I say all of them are possible by these silly bandits, but I’ll have to go with A for this quiz.
July 14th, 2009 at 9:58 am
A.
July 14th, 2009 at 11:00 am
The correct answer is c.
July 14th, 2009 at 11:32 am
I believe it is A open a soda can
July 14th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
A, open a soda can.
July 15th, 2009 at 11:53 am
c. unlock doors
July 17th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
a, open a can
July 21st, 2009 at 5:14 am
a. Open a pop Can