A long-tailed coati that searches for insects with its snout close to the ground.
A white band marks the end of its long snout, with pale patches around the eyes and cheeks. Its long tail has dark rings.
Camera trapping in Nicaragua’s South Caribbean region and Río San Juan covered 122 independent sites in 2010–2012 and 2014. Including sites sampled in more than one year, the analysis contained 207 site-year records. Together, the cameras accumulated 8,371 trap nights and recorded 1,083 detections across eight mammal species, including white-nosed coatis.
The best-supported model linked coati site use positively with forest loss within 1 km of a camera and with distance from protected areas. Researchers used these and other site variables to map estimated occupancy across the region. The maps predicted high coati occupancy in some areas with greater forest loss, and the authors listed coatis among species expected to thrive in secondary habitat.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
In this Nicaragua study, coati occupancy was positively associated with forest loss. The authors listed the species among those expected to thrive in secondary habitat.