#south american coati

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The Book of the Animal Kingdom; Mammals. Written by William Percival Westfall. Illustrated by W.S. Berridge. 1910.

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#WorldCoatiDay:

Jacopo Ligozzi (Italian, 1547-1627) Coati in un Paesaggio, c. 1620-40 oil on canvas Villa medicea di Poggio a Caiano, Italy

Portrait of a South American Coati (Nasua nasua) wearing a red belled collar, presumably an individual from the Medici menagerie.

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South American Coati Nasua nasua

5/6/2023 San Diego Zoo, California

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South American Coati | Paulo Mascaretti

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Careful, he may steal your food

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Cuidado, puede robarte la comida

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ハナグマって別にクマに似てなくない？と思ってたけど、初めてクマっぽいと思った

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Coati’s Latin name and Japanese name both means ‘nose bear’, but I don’t think they are similar to bears.

But Look at this pose! I feel like they look like bears!

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South American coati, also known as the ring-tailed coati

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South American coati (Nasua nasua)

A Natural History of British and Foreign Quadrupeds. Written by James H. Fennell. 1843.

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It’s #WorldCoatiDay!

On top is the earliest known European image of this endemic American animal, from the Felix Platter (1536-1614) collection of drawings, originally owned by Conrad Gessner (1516-1565); it’s a color illustration of a coati sent by Antonio Musa Brassavola (1500-1555), who was a physician to popes and kings, and probably depicted an animal from one of his clients’ menageries (note collar!).

Below is the woodcut Illustration Gessner made from this model, which became the first published image of a coati when he added the animal to his Historiae animalium encyclopedia in the 1554 appendix. Although he called it “Mus Indicus,” we know from the original illustration it was in fact a South American Coati (Nasua nasua).

Unlike Gessner’s South American Coati, Ulisse Aldrovandi’s (1522-1605) woodcut illustration published in De quadrupedibus digitatis viviparis (1637) was modeled from an original illustration by Guiseppe Arcimboldo (1526-1593) of a much rarer Mountain Coati (Nasuella spp., probably the Western Mountain Coati, N. olivacea) in a Habsburg court menagerie (c. last quarter 1500s).

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