Coati Mundi

A coati-mundi is a tropical, arboreal raccoon of sorts, with a long, ever-wriggling snout, sharp teeth, eyes that twinkle with humor, and clawed paws which are more skilful than many a fingered hand. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

The natural histories call him coati-mundi, while the Indian has by far the best of it, with the ringing, climactic syllables, _Kibihée! ❋ William Beebe (1919)

A young coati-mundi cannot sit man-fashion like a bear-cub, nor is he as fuzzy as a kitten or as helpless as a puppy, but he has ways of winning to the human heart, past all obstacles. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

The loudest chatter came from the guests and resident pets Conchita, a capuchin monkey, and Mundi, a baby coati-mundi. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And so it is not of the tropical mammal coati-mundi, nor even of the humorous Kib that I think, but of the soul of him galloping up and down his slanting log, of his little inner ego, which changed from a wild thing to one who would hurl himself from any height or distance into a lap, confident that we would save his neck, welcome him, and waste good time playing the game which he invented, of seeing whether we could touch his little cold snout before he hid it beneath his curved arms. ❋ William Beebe (1919)