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These guys are beggars on the jogging trail my webmaster uses, a gang of up to 20. He says they will eat anything but will follow you home for cheese-puffs. Junk-food junkies. I wonder if they like to eat them while watching the game?

Anyway, for those of you who have not had the fun of meeting a Coati-mundi, here they are!
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Gus
A. Rentfro
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"Quality is not an accident. Perfectly healthy animals are a minimum requirement.. everything else is just salesmanship" gus

>>These guys are beggars on the jogging trail my webmaster uses, a gang of up to 20. He says they will eat anything but will follow you home for cheese-puffs. Junk-food junkies. I wonder if they like to eat them while watching the game?
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>>Anyway, for those of you who have not had the fun of meeting a Coati-mundi, here they are!
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>>Gus
>>A. Rentfro
>>RioBravoReptiles.com
>>www.riobravoreptiles.com
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>>"Quality is not an accident. Perfectly healthy animals are a minimum requirement.. everything else is just salesmanship" gus
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Got Bats?

.. They are not agressive, but like any wild animal you can't just grab them. Actually, that's the way I met my first one, no permanent damage.

Coatis are tropical and sub-tropical omnivores, somewhat like a racoon but not closely related to those. They are at least as clever as a racoon and have more dexterity with the hands and a somewhat prehensile tail, which they carry up behind them like a flag.

Traveling in packs they can do some damage to a hen house or a farm plot so they are considered pests. Finding them in the US is quite difficult, though they were common in Texas until the 50's.. Similarly in rural communities in Mexico and southward they are getting scarce, hunted out.

The photo above is from a resort community near Puerto Morelos.. if you are like me and had seen the Yucatan before Can Cun exploded and 5 million people moved onto that area you don't much like the changes. In this instance though it seems the urban residents tolerate the Coatis (and a few other photogenic natives) so something is saved..

Gus

though rarely, I admit. Around here (VA), they were going for a few hundred each. From what little I've heard about them as pets, they are very intelligent and very curious...and very prone to wrecking a house if left with the run of the house unsupervised. That's not to say all of them are that way, just the couple of first-hand accounts I have heard about them. As clever as they're supposed to be, I'm sure they could be trained though. They are terribly cute.

trade their biggest problem ? Habitat destruction is probably the worse of all evils.
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Hey, oversized feeders!LOL
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Greg
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