Kinkajou
Best feature
Its tail has developed so it can grip on to trees. It uses it a lot like another arm.
Size
Head and body, 43 to 56 cm; Tail, 41 to 56 cm.
Kinkajou
Favourite food
Kinkajous are mad about fruit! They also eat some flowers, leaves and termites.
Home
They live high up in the trees in most parts of South America, from Mexico to Bolivia, as well as in the Brazilian Amazon.
Kinkajou
Current population
Nobody’s quite sure how many kinkajous there are.
Biggest threat
The kinkajou is not a threatened species, but it is still affected by deforestation and hunting.
That’s a fact!
Kinkajous can turn their feet backwards so that they can run in either direction along narrow branches!
Watch
Watch a video from our friends
at ARKive, of a kinkajou.