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Kinkajou

                     📋Information📋
         
              Species Name: Kinkajou
 Species Scientific Name: Potos flavus
                       Type: Mammal
               Species Diet: Omnivore
                  Weight: 3 to 7 pounds
                    Group Name: Troop
       Head to body Size: 17 to 22 inches
                 Tail Size: 16 to 22 inches
                          
                          ⚡Facts⚡

- Kinkajous live at Central and South America's tropical forests.
- Kinkajous spend most of their time up in trees.
- A Kinkajou is related to the raccoon
- Kinkajous raid bees nests. They use their long and skinny you tongues to drink the honey from the hive, plus they help remove insects from their nests by doing that.
- Female Kinkajous give light/birth to one offspring in the spring or summer time.
- A social interaction that Kinkajous do is to groom each other.
- Kinkajous are able to turn their feet backwards to run easier in any direction.
- Kinkajous are vocal animals which mean you can often hear them screeching and barking in tropical forests canopies.
- A newly born Kinkajou is born with it's eyes shut/closed for a month
- Kinkajous also eat fruit and small mammals.
- A Kinkajou also has a gripping tail that is used a lot like another arm.
- By the end of the second month of a Kinkajou being born they are able to hang upside down from it's tail.
- Kinkajous roam and eat at night.
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  Kinkajous come back each morning to sleep in previously used tree holes.
                     
                       🧭Sources🧭

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