FURRY ANIMALS 



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to find a fat iguana so very sound asleep that 

 he would not wake up until he had been caught. 

 If he became too hungry from the chase, the 

 coati could always stop and fill his stomach with 

 leaves and fruit. 



The coatis are sociable animals. Sometimes I 

 saw them singly, lying on branches looking down 

 at me, but oftener they were feeding in groups. 

 Some of the small groups might have been families, 



Photograph by Richter 



Fig. 69. Coati 



but others were much too large to be only one 

 family. They visited my camp at night, wakening 

 and startling me as they scratched among the 

 camp-fire sticks. They fight savagely dogs that 

 hunt them, but when tamed they make clever pets. 



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