tropical raccoon....have you ever seen one of these?

[Gato Moteado]

photo of a coati taken at one of my wildlife blinds today
coatis are a tropical relative of the raccoons we know and love in the USA.

[LakeArenal]

1. No feeding allowed!!!🇨🇷

[Gato Moteado]

8. shhhhhhhhhhh

i have bananas growing all over the place (as well as other fruit producing plants).....i'm feeding the rain forest inadvertently!

[LakeArenal]

14. I do that for birds. Nuts, fruit seeds.

Which is also a no no….

[LudwigPastorius]

2. An Equatorial Trash Panda?

great photo!

[ShazzieB]

5. LOL!

Personally, I think our North Anericwn trash pandas are cuter, with their shorter snouts and bushier coats, but coatis are pretty cool in their own way!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. This is a wonderfully sensitive photo, my dear Gato! So beautiful w/great bokeh too. Thank you! ♥ nt

[Gato Moteado]

9. thanks peg!

[ShazzieB]

4. Very nice photo!

I dont think I've seen one of those guys in the flesh, but I knew about them.

If I'm not mistaken, their range extends into parts of the southwestern U.S. (i.e., southern Texas and New Mexico and parts of Arizona). I don't know if that's the same type/species of coati that's found in Central America, but they look pretty similar, in pictures, at least.

[Gato Moteado]

10. yes....these guys range up into SW USA!

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Almost looks like a possum!

[Gato Moteado]

11. ok, now.....i need to see one of your possums!

[Callalily]

7. Great photo. And no, I don't need to see one in the wild. ;-)

[Gato Moteado]

12. you should see when a whole herd of them almost runs right into you!

it's happened to me a couple times when they weren't paying attention

[sl8]

13. Looks like it had its head in a bag of Cheetos.

Great pic.

[Gato Moteado]

15. hahaha....yes, the soil here is orange clay