Exempel på coati

• While following the howler monkey group, all interspecific encounters between howler monkeys and coatis were recorded.

• During five of these episodes, coatis just passed by a non-fruiting tree where the howler group was resting without interacting.

• This could help to explain the high number of solitary individuals and the overall small size of coati groups observed.

• These observations indicate the potential competition over food between the two species, and suggest that howlers may displace coatis during these episodes.

• However, only one aggression event was observed during a feeding encounter between howlers and coatis.

• Mean coati band size during encounters was 2.5 animals and on 12 occasions only solitary coatis were involved.

• Therefore, the reduction in litter fauna in the dry season plus the presence of highly desirable fruits such as figs favours the feeding encounters between howler monkeys and coatis.

• Optimally, they should have a spacious outdoor enclosure and a coati-proofed room in the house and/or other climate-controlled place, as well.

• It has been treated as a species, but the vast majority of recent authorities treat it as a subspecies of the white-nosed coati.

• Predators of fruits bats include owls, snakes, large opossums, and coati.

• The 14 species of carnivores include raccoons, coati, kinkajou, olingo, skunks, grison, tayra and five species of cats (jaguar, ocelot, margay, jaguarundi and puma).

• Recently, the species has expanded excessively; its fruits, which naturally fall to the ground and open, are eagerly eaten by small mammals such as the common marmoset and coati.