Shortly after crossing the 470 metre long suspension bridge at El Jorullo a few miles inland from Puerto Vallarta on the Pacific Coast of Mexico a small café on the forest track comes into view. Standing outside for a few minutes to see if the noisy Military Macaws would come into view, a group of White-nosed Coatis (Nasua narica) appeared, obviously wondering if we were going to have something to eat and give into their entreaties for a few scraps from the table. Having just had lunch we weren’t but they tried their luck for a while before disappearing back into the forest of Canopy River Park. Members of the Carnivora they may be but these, like other members of the procyonid family, like raccoons, are very much omnivorous.
Except in the breeding season, the bands are said to comprise only females and juveniles, the make leading a solitary existence. They are diurnal.
White-nosed coatis are very much a species of Central America, occurring from parts of Arizona and New Mexico in the north to the very tip of Colombia in the south.
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