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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

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

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.

  • Kinkajou
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