The Coati Munde
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Nasua narica

The Spanish translation for Coati Mundi is Coati

Home:  near water in the desert canyon forests of the southwestern United States (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas) to Argentina

Food:  Earthworms, termites, snails, lizards, snakes, mice, fruits, roots, nuts and eggs

Size (length with tail & weight):  30 to 55 inches long
                                                            10 to 25 pounds

Coati Munde Trivia:

• These noisy little critters love to eat.
  
  
• Coati Munde live in colonies of up to 20 members.
  
  
• The Coati Munde colonies are led by females.
  
  
• Their tails can grow to be 2 feet long.  
  

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Our Meet the Animals section includes research from the following websites:

The Austin Zoo's website:  www.austinzoo.org.

Spanish translations courtesy of the Austin Zoo.

Rolling Hills Refuge Wildlife Conservation Center http://www.rhrwildlife.com/animbot.htm

The Birmingham Zoo  http://www.birminghamzoo.com/

The WWW Virtual Library: Zoos  http://zoonet.home.mindspring.com/www_virtual_lib/zoos.html

Photographs in Our Meet the Animals Section from PrintMaster Platinum v8.0 software.

Research on farm animals came primarily from  http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/

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