The animal of which we are now about to treat, many 
authors have called Goati-mmdi. It is very different from 
the animal described in the preceding article, being of a 
smaller size than the racoon. Its body, neck, head, 
and nose, are of a more lengthened form, upper jaw 
is an inch, or an inch and a half longer than the lower 
one ; and its snout, which is moveable in every division* 
turns up at the point. The eyes of the Coati are also 
smaller than the eyes of the racoon ; its hair is longer 
and coarser, its legs are shorter, and its feet longer ; but* 
like the racoon, its tail is diversified with red ; and to 
all its feet there are five claws. 
This animal has a practice of eating its own tail, which* 
when not mutilated, is longer than its body, and which it 
generally raises aloft, and can move with ease in any 
direction. 
From this circumstance we may infer, that 4n those 
parts, of which the extremities are consequently very 
remote from the seat of the senses, that feeling must 
be w r eak, and the more so, the greater the distance and the 
smaller the part. 
As for the Coati, in other respects, it is an animal of 
prey, which subsists on flesh and blood, and, like the 
fox, destroys small animals and poultry, hunts for the nest 
of little birds, and devours their eggs ; and it is probably 
from this conformity of disposition, that some authors 
have considered the Coati as a species of small fox. 
