As usual, I made many images, and below are a few...
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Like some strange piece of furry, living art, a sea of coati tails hooks sinously skyward. This platoon was foraging on a lawn at Tikal, Guatemala..JPG)
His "brother" may be the raccoon, but White-nosed Coatis look much like a small bear. That spadelike snout is an extremely effective digging implement. A favored treat is large tarantulas, which the coatis snout from their earthen dens.More to come...
8 comments:
Jim- I thought after glancing at your first image that you had encountered a field with a herd of mini brachiosauri. I didn't know they had any remnant dinosaur populations in Guatemala. Don't their tails look like the necks of large plant eating dinosaurs?
Like Tom, above - I couldn't make sense of that scene. Kept trying to turn them into birds (the tails as some weird sinewy necks).
Welcome home - just in time for sweet spring.
Welcome back to reality!
I can't wait to hear stories of Guatemala.
I love this photo. I've seen coatis in the zoo, but never so many in one place, and poses are perfect.
Good job confusing us, Jim! Like Tom and Cathy, I thought there was some dino action going on in that first photo. Welcome back!
To think that so many tarantulas might be living in that lawn! Yuck! I would not want to walk barefoot in that grass at night.
Anon!
Yikes . . I hadn't thought about that!
Thanks for the comments, all. Yes, platoons of CO-OT-EE's patrolling, tails held skyward, is an interesting sight. As there are apparently some spider enthusiasts here, I'll try and slap up some nice photos that I took of a very handsome - and large - tarantula.
Jim
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