Photo: Curious coatimundi

Matt Thurlow

By Matt Thurlow
Uploaded on 14 July 2008
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Curious coatimundi

This raccoon-like animal was everywhere on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica. Unlike most of other mammals and birds we encountered, the coatimundi rarely fled. This one actually crawled out on to a tree trunk to get a closer look at the humans that disturbed him in the middle of his crab hunt.

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