One big takeaway of searching for content for this Animals Solving Puzzles series: It’s interesting how intelligent scavenging animals are.
According to this BBC video, “research has shown that [raccoons] can even remember how to open different locks after more than a year.”

But… their gamemasters will still show them how to operate a directional lock every single time. 🙃

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