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Coatimundi Caresheet
Statistics
Lifespan: 10 to 15 years
Adult Weight Range: 6 to 30 pounds
Adult Diet: Fruit, eggs, meat
Puberty: 6 to 10 months
Breeding Season: Fall
Gestation: 72 to 77 days
Number of Young: 3 to 4
Average Body Temp: 100 to 102
Vaccines Recommended: canine distemper, feline leukopenia, rabies (killed-virus vaccines only)
Hematological Values:
RBC: 11.0
PCV: 35.0-40.0
WBC: 13.0-16.5
Habitat Range
Coatimundis (Nasua) are diurnal mammals native to the lowland rainforests of Central and South America and southwestern North America. Their habitats range from the southwestern states of the United States though eastern and southern Mexico, Belize and Costa Rica in Central America, and down as far south as Ecuador and southern Brazil in South America.
Names
Coatimundis are known by a variety of names in local, regional and other languages:
Family: Procyonidae
Latin: Nasua, Nasuella
Common: coatimundi or coati
Spanish: coat
Swedish: vitnosad nsbjrn, nordlig nsbjrn
Columbia: guache, cuzumbo, cusumbo, cusumbo solo, gato solo
Brazil: quati, quatimund
Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador: tejn
Paraguay: gato solo
French Guiana: coach
Peru: achuni, sehuaro
Suriname: neusbeer, kwaskwasi
Belize: quash
Costa Rica, Honduras: pizote, pizote solo
Mexico: tejn, cuchucho, andasolo, kibihee
Mayan: chic, sis
Background
Care
Having a coatimundi as a pet is like having a two-year old child in many ways. Coatis are extremely intelligent and inquisitive and very skillful with their hands. There are few handles, clips and knobs they cannot master.
Diet
Basic Diet: Bananas, grapes, mangoes, melons, eggs, dry monkey chow
Treats: Honey, Fig Newtons, Fruit Loops, marshmellows, gummi bears
Avoid: Avocados, chocolate, caffeine
Breeding
Coatimundi babies playing with baby Genet
Lifespan
Coatimundis have a life span of approximately 10 to 15 years.
Status
Enemies of the Coati are the tayra, fox, jaguarundi, jaguar, ocelot, margay, and, of course, humans, as in their habitat, they are often hunted for their meat. Coati numbers are declining as a result of deforestation.
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