For the first time in history one of the world’s least known mammals, the western mountain coati (Nasuella olivacea), has conceived and given birth in human care. Two months since the delivery “the offspring is enjoying excellent health, this is the result of a scientific...
Walking about the park without a leash, the five creatures run up and down playground slides, curiously sniffing at bushes and wagging their tails at leaf piles. While everyone is staying home amid Covid-19, the Brown Nosed Coatis at Singapore Zoo are getting a chance to...
A White Nosed Coati was released back into the Colossal Cave Mountain park today after it was taken in due to injuries from another Coati group. If you go on a tour of the area with park rangers and guides you may be able to...
If you are a connoisseur of rare coffees of the world, you may have heard of the dung coffee produced in Peru. What’s different about this coffee is that it is procured from the excreta of a South American mammal called the Coati. Coati locally known...
Colombia is now home to the first-ever Western Mountain Coati born in Human Care after years-long efforts by biologists in a nature park just outside of the capital Bogota. The near-threatened mammal, formally called the “nasuella olivacea,” was both conceived and given birth to in the...
An elderly South American Coati has unexpectedly given birth to two healthy kittens at Zoo Budapest. Wild Coatis are known to have a life expectancy of only seven to eight years. However in human care they've been known to extend that expectancy to live up to...
The first ever Western Mountain Coati, is being kept in a strict quarantine and welfare procedures by researchers at the Bioparque la Reserva in Cota, Cundinamarca (Colombia), with the support of experts from Mammal Department at Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (UK). This small carnivore was confiscated...
The Brown-Nosed Coati (Nasua nasua) is a carnivorous species found in all the Brazilian biomes, some of which are endangered areas. The aim of this work was to determine the habitat use and selection, home range and core area of N. nasua in the Cerrado...