REGINA BARBER: You're listening to Short Wave from NPR. In North America, raccoons are everywhere. The common raccoon is native to forest habitats, but a lot of them live in urban areas close to humans, like the one that I'm pretty sure lives in my front yard and the one that fell through that ceiling…
One of Heather Mulligan's jumping spiders crawls on her hand in Surprise, Arizona, on Sept 15, 2025. Caitlin O'Hara for NPR hide caption For Emily Hess, it was a Phidippus regius named Gretel. Hayden Shea's first was caught by her boyfriend's dad. Sunday Costell ordered her first one off eBay. Those spiders were the gateway…
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