South American coati, ring-tailed coati (Nasua nasua) English: Coati (Nasua nasua) - Picture taken at Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos in Teresópolis (Rio de Janeiro). Note: This is not the Gambá-de-orelha-preta as suggested by the title.
Português: Quati (Nasua nasua) - Foto tirada no Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos, em Teresópolis (Rio de Janeiro). (Nota: não é o Gambá-de-orelha-preta, como é sugerido pelo título)
Date 05/04/2009
Author Kovags
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coati_(Nasua_nasua)_at_Parque_Nacional_da_Serra_dos_%C3%93rg%C3%A3os,_Teres%C3%B3polis,_Brazil.jpg
The South American coati, or ring-tailed coati (Nasua nasua), is a species of coati from tropical and subtropical South America. In Brazilian Portuguese it is known as quati. Weight in this species is 2–7.2 kg and total length is 85–113 cm, half of that being its tail. Its color is highly variable and the rings on the tail may be quite weak, but it lacks the largely white muzzle ("nose") of its northern cousin, the white-nosed coati.
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Caniformia
Family: Procyonidae
Genus: Nasua
Species: Nasua nasua (Linnaeus, 1766)
