Potos flavus | 台北市立動物園資訊網

Kinkajousliveinavarietyofforesthabitatsincludingtropicaldryforest,...Kinkajouspossessacuriouslylong,extensibletonguethathasleadmanytobelieve ...

Kinkajous are distributed in neotropical forest regions from southern Tamaulipas, Mexico to southern Brazil. (Eisenburg, 1989[1]; Kortlucke, 1973[2])

Kinkajous live in a variety of forest habitats including tropical dry forest, secondary forest, Amazonian rainforest, Atlantic coastal forest, tropical evergreen forest and forests of the savannah region in Suriname. They are rarely found in palm jungle, cloud forests or thorn forests (Ford and Hoffmann 1988). Habitat requirements have not been fully investigated. (Ford and Hoffmann, 1988[3])

Potos flavus is in the carnivoran family Procyonidae (raccoons, coatis, and their relatives). Kinkajous have distinctive features that at one time were used to place them in the order...