Raccoon Latrines: Watching Our Wildlife

This summer, University of Guelph summer student, Grace Thornton and PhD candidate, Shannon French began a year-long research project in collaboration with the rare Charitable Research Reserve. The researchers are investigating the role of rodents in the ecology of the raccoon roundworm, Baylisascaris procyonis. Raccoons are the definitive host of the raccoon roundworm. Raccoons typically…