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The crab-eating raccoon, southern raccoon, or South American raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus) is a species of raccoon native to marshy and jungle areas of Central and South America (including Trinidad and Tobago). It is found from Costa Rica south through most areas of South America east of the Andes down to northern Argentina and Uruguay. [1]
The clades leading to coatis and olingos on one branch, and to ringtails and raccoons on the other, separated about 17.7 Ma ago. [14] The divergence between olingos and coatis is estimated to have occurred about 10.2 Ma ago, [14] at about the same time that ringtails and raccoons parted ways.
Crab-eating raccoon, southern raccoon: Based on genetic studies, the lineages of common and crab-eating raccoons are thought to have separated about 4.2 million years ago. [4] Shorter fur and more gracile. Costa Rica through most areas of South America east of the Andes down to northern Argentina and Uruguay. P. pygmaeus: Cozumel raccoon, pygmy ...
Coatis are one of five groups of procyonids commonly kept as pets in various parts of North, Central and South America, the others being the raccoons (common and crab-eating), the kinkajou, the ring-tailed cat and cacomistle. However, while both the white-nosed and South America coatis are common in captivity, mountain coatis are extremely rare ...
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Raccoons are common throughout North America from Canada to Panama, where the subspecies Procyon lotor pumilus coexists with the crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus). [ 239 ] [ 240 ] The population on Hispaniola was exterminated as early as 1513 by Spanish colonists who hunted them for their meat. [ 241 ]
A woman fled and called 911 for help after nearly 100 hungry raccoons surrounded her Washington home, officials said in a video shared by the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office.. The unnamed woman ...
The South American coati (Nasua nasua), also known as the ring-tailed coati, is a coati species and a member of the raccoon family (Procyonidae), found in the tropical and subtropical parts of South America. [4] An adult generally weighs from 2–7.2 kg (4.4–15.9 lb) and is 85–113 cm (33–44 in) long, with half of that being its tail. [5]