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Small mammals
Kinkajou
Kinkajou · Potos flavus
Kinkajous are nocturnal climbers with prehensile tails, whose large eyes can spot you high up among tropical leaves.
Fact file
- Size
- 40 to 60 cm body length plus a prehensile tail of similar length, 1.5 to 4.5 kg in weight
- Males and females
- Both sexes are hardly distinguishable by appearance
- Sounds
- Soft squeaking and growling sounds, and loud screeching when excited
- Diet
- Mainly fruit such as figs, supplemented by nectar, honey and occasional insects
- Offspring
- After a gestation period of about 116 days usually one young, twins are rare
How to identify Kinkajou
Kinkajous are small, nocturnal mammals with dense, golden-brown to greyish-yellow fur that looks soft and slightly glossy. Their large, dark eyes stand out immediately in the beam of a torch. The long, prehensile tail is striking and used like an extra hand, and kinkajous can also twist their hind feet to grip.
With a body length of around 40 to 60 centimetres and a tail of similar length, kinkajous appear quite round, with small, rounded ears. Thanks to their agility they climb almost silently, usually high up in the forest canopy. They are sometimes confused with opossums, but kinkajous look stockier and do not have hairless tails.
More in the app
With Wildful Stories+ you also get in the app:
- general viewing tips
- 3 places where you can see Kinkajou
Where Kinkajou live
Discover Kinkajou on your trip.
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