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The cacomistle hails from Mexico to Central America. They prefer wet, tropical, evergreen woodlands, as well as mountain forests. Sometimes they can also be found in drier deciduous forest habitats. Even though they face the threats of habitat destruction at the hands of the logging industry, hunting, and trapping, they […]

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The olinguito hails from the tropical, montane forests of western Colombia and Ecuador. These critters are the first carnivorous mammal to be discovered, in the western hemisphere, in 365 years! The elusive and mysterious oliguito was previously misidentified as an olingo. They are unfortunately the victims of habitat destruction, in […]

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The coatis, aka coatimundis, are relatives of the raccoon that live from Arizona and areas of southern New Mexico in the U.S., through Mexico (except the Baja peninsula and central Sierra Madres) and into Central America, all the way to Panama and into South America in areas west of the […]

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