Old Dogs, New Treks.

Discusses how the tanuki, Asia's raccoon dog, has adapted to living in modern Europe. Evolution of present-day canids in North America before their migration across the Bering land bridge to Asia in the late Pliocene epoch; Analysis of scats to provide information about the diet of raccoon dogs; Findings that tanukis are omnivores that eat an array of foods depending on the availability of resources; Dependence of raccoon dog's feeding ecology on food in small packages; How the creatures lack skill in hunting large predators.