
South American Coati
A social forest forager whose upright ringed tail often appears above vegetation before the animal itself.
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A social forest forager whose upright ringed tail often appears above vegetation before the animal itself.

The Amazonian motelo walks humid forest floors on yellow-scaled limbs, tracking fallen fruit and fungi through habitat where an open-country tortoise would look out of place.