Does anybody know what this little creature is?

Submitted by lincolngardner on Wed, 2007/10/03 - 19:02.
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Does anybody know what this little creature is?

This photo was taken at Selva Del Mar, Gigante, Nicaragua. Our caretaker, Vidal, calls it a "Quioso". It looks like a lemur. It has a prehensile tail, and likes to hang upside down and eat fruit from our Noni trees. It moves slowly, like a sloth. I couldn't find any other info on it. Maybe I misspelled the name. Can anybody help identify it?

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Kinkajou

Submitted by zenpilgrim on Wed, 2007/10/03 - 19:56.

I think it is a Kinkajou. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou

I have come across them

Submitted by nicareal on Thu, 2007/10/04 - 11:54.

several times. My campesino friends call them "Mountain cats". Form the way it moves it seems to belong to the sloth family.

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