The white-nosed coati ( Nasua narica ) is a species of coati and a member of the family Procyonidae ( raccoons and relatives ).

This is apparent in their German names: a raccoon is called a Waschbär ( washing bear, as he " washes " his food before eating ), a coati is a Nasenbär ( nose-bear ) while a Kinkajou is a Honigbär ( honey-bear ).

The cacomistle is part of the family Procyonidae which includes other small omnivores such as the raccoon and the Brazilian coati.

A mountain coati that was confiscated from poachers is kept at Bioparque la Reserva in Cota, Colombia.

The Spanish word for badger is tejón, but in Mexico this word is also used to describe the coati.

Cooperative activities during foraging time included the following: cuts trail for others to follow ; makes bridge for others to cross river ; carries another's child ; climbs a tree to flush a monkey for another hunter ; allows another to shoot at prey when one has first ( best ) shot ; allows another to dig armadillo or extract honey or larva when one encountered it ; yells whereabouts of prey escaping ; calls the location of a resource for another individual to exploit while one continues searching ; calls another to come to a pursuit of peccary, paca, monkey, or coati ; waits for others to join a pursuit thus lowering own return rate ; tracks peccaries with no arrows ( for other men with arrows to kill ); carries game shot by another hunter ; climbs fruit trees to knock down fruit for others to collect ; cuts down palms ( for others to take heart or fiber ); opens window to test for kraku ( for others to come take ); carries the palm fiber others have taken ; cuts down fruit trees for others to collect ; brings a bow, arrow, ax or other tool to another in a pursuit ; spends time instructing another on how to take a resource ; lends bow or ax when it could be used ; helps to look for another's arrows ; prepares or repairs another man's bow and arrows in the middle of a pursuit ; goes back on trail to warn others of wasp nest ; walks toward other hunters to warn of fresh jaguar tracks, poisonous snakes ; removing dangerous obstacles from the trail before others arrive.

Other exhibits at the zoo include enclosures for collared peccary, maned wolf, bairds tapir, Indian porcupine, snow leopard, Persian leopard, puma, Syrian brown bear, white-nosed coati, ring-tailed lemur, blue-and-yellow macaw, red panda, little penguin, hamadryas baboon, several species of tamarin, Brazilian agouti, Goodfellow's tree kangaroo, meerkat, quokka, platypus, De Brazza's monkey, Aldabra giant tortoise and bongo.

Recently, the species expanded excessively because its fruits, once they had naturally fallen to the ground and opened, were eagerly eaten by small mammals such as the common marmoset and the coati.

Coatis from Cozumel Island have been treated as a separate species, the Cozumel Island coati, but the vast majority of recent authorities treat it as a subspecies, N. narica nelsoni, of the white-nosed coati.

The Cozumel Island coati has also been recognized as a species, but the vast majority of recent authorities treat it as a subspecies, N. narica nelsoni, of the white-nosed coati.

Image: DirkvdM coati. jpg | White-nosed coati at Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica

Image: 5287_aquaimages. jpg | White-nosed coati at Tikal, Guatemala

Image: coati. arp. jpg | South American coati, Nasua nasua, in an English zoo

Image: nasuanarica1. jpg | White-nosed coati in Rincón de la Vieja National Park, Costa Rica

Image: coati-iguazu. jpg | South American coati near Iguaçu Falls, Brazil

Image: Hike09. jpg | White-nosed coati on Mt.

Image: CoatiScavengingIguazú. jpg | South American coati seeking discarded food in the

White-nosed coati and collared peccary in the southwest are normally found in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

Additionally, as the marmoset and coati also prey opportunistically on bird's eggs and nestlings, the supply of jackfruit as a ready source of food has allowed them to expand their populations, to the detriment of the local bird populations.

The greatly elongated head is set on a short, thick neck, and the end of the snout bears a disc, which houses the nostrils.

In New Guinea, sexual maturity is reached by female toads with a snout – vent length between, while toads in Panama achieve maturity when they are between in length.

The scientific name Ornithorhynchus anatinus is derived from ορνιθόρυγχος ( ornithorhynkhos ), which literally means " bird snout " in Greek, and anatinus, which means " duck-like " in Latin.

Unlike a bird's beak ( in which the upper and lower parts separate to reveal the mouth ), the snout of the platypus is a sensory organ with the mouth on the underside.

The nostrils are located on the dorsal surface of the snout, while the eyes and ears are located in a groove set just back from it ; this groove is closed when swimming.

A typical pig has a large head with a long snout which is strengthened by a special prenasal bone and by a disk of cartilage at the tip.

The snout is used to dig into the soil to find food and is a very acute sense organ.

Tusks were once thought to be used to dig out prey from the seabed, but analyses of abrasion patterns on the tusks indicate they are dragged through the sediment while the upper edge of the snout is used for digging.

It is known only from the dorsal and ventral impressions of a single animal and was estimated to be from snout to vent.

The snout of an African Dwarf Frog is pointed.

The Short-beaked Echidna is similarly strange, covered in hairy spikes with a tubular snout in the place of a mouth, and a tongue that can move in and out of the snout about 100 times a minute to capture termites.

The rhubarb curculio, Lixus concavus, is a member of the weevils group, also called the snout beetles.

The Typhon has a curved snout, long, rectangular ears, a forked tail, and canine body ; sometimes, Set is depicted as a human with only the head of the Set animal.

Its snout is sharply downturned, an adaptation for grazing and uprooting benthic seagrasses.

The former snout moth genus of that name is now synonymized with Aphomia.

The snout is pointed and the ears and eyes are large.

A short-beaked echidna curled into a ball, the snout is visible on the right

In Zapotec art Cocijo is represented with a zoomorphic face with a wide, blunt snout and a long forked serpentine tongue.

Estuarine Crocodiles do not have these scutes and their snout is broader.

It is one of the very few entirely nectarivorous mammals ; it has a long, pointed snout and a long, protusible tongue with a brush tip that gathers pollen and nectar, like a honeyeater or a hummingbird.

A marlin, family Istiophoridae, is a fish with an elongated body, a spear-like snout or bill, and a long rigid dorsal fin, which extends forward to form a crest.

Curculionidae is the family of the " true " weevils ( or " snout beetles ").