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  THEY DID IT! The Dracula Youth Reserve Emergency Expansion Project is Fully Funded!   14 Months of dedicated fundraising later; RESERVA The Youth Land Trust, have finally raised enough money to fully fund the protection and expansion of the Dracula Youth Reserve in Ecuador's Carchi Province. This 1,050-acre cloud...

In 2023 its not just humans that are improving in their healthcare, animals are right on par with us! Meet Ebony; a 12 year old Brown Nosed Coati, who is believed to be the first of her kind to receive acupuncture as a treatment plan for...

Brevard Zoo have welcomed Sky & Rita; two White-Nosed Coatis to their already established band! Sky & Rita are now on display next to the rest of their Coati band; which includes their two older coati residents, Lupita and Katie, and their trio of 1-year-olds, Tito,...

Katie the white-nosed coatimundi recently celebrated her 16th birthday with her very own car, made by Brevard Zoo volunteers! Coati’s life expectancy is about 7-8 years in the wild and about 14 years in human care, making Katie a geriatric Zoo resident. The staff at the Brevard...

Following the expansion of Brevard Zoo’s White-Nosed Coati habitat earlier this year; one male and two female Coatis have now arrived at the Zoo. The yet-to-be-named youngsters, who were born at a private facility in Texas in May, are new founders for the [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AKFSgDezg4[/embed] Association of Zoos and...

The illegal wildlife trade is often characterised by iconic species like Rhinos and Elephants being pushed to the edge of extinction. For others, like the Pangolin, it has taken decades as they teeter on the brink of disaster, to get their plight into the public...

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...

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...

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...