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...
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...
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...
This expansion will essentially double the size of their existing Coati habitat. An expansion of the White-Nosed Coati habitat in Brevard's Rainforest Revealed is underway! Plans call for the construction of a second “module” that will connect to the current living space through a tunnel that can...