A long, mobile, upturned, and whitish snout
The white-nosed coati (pizote; Nasua narica) is the most diurnal and frequently seen procyonid. They are brownish and longer, but slimmer and lighter, than raccoons. Their most distinctive features are a long, mobile, upturned whitish snout with which they snuffle around on the forest floor looking for insects, fruits, and small animals, and a long, faintly ringed tail held straight up in the air when foraging. Although they feed on the ground, they are agile climbers, sleep and copulate in trees. They are found countrywide in all types of forest up to 3000m.
Pictures by Angela and Jörn Malek. The team of 1-CostaRicaLink wishes you the best of times in our little paradise called Costa Rica.
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