Kinkazhi biography

A unique animal has a lot of virtues. Kinkazh is the only representative of the genus Potos.

The name "kinkajou" in translation means: "honey bear" since animals are very fond of honey and sweets. One of the advantages of kinkaju is an opportunity to keep it at home, kinkazh is very playful, curious, affectionate. Many people prefer them to monkeys, since the kinkazh is more calm and not so nimble, but with their appearance they resemble monkeys with something.

Habitat: Kinkaju is a native of Central and South America. Description of the animal: a small animal, the closest relative of the raccoon and the small panda, but in appearance and behavior more like a monkey. The kinkazh resembles a mixture of various animals: it looks like a bear with a face, a body with a tie, a tail to a monkey, and a raccoon with his curiosity and playfulness.

Kinkazh has a slender thin body covered with dense dense fur. The face is round and short, with big eyes and small ears. A long -grade tail is used like a third hand on which the animal can freely swing back and forward, and also hangs and when its paws are busy. The tail also acts as a balancer while driving, and is also used as a comfortable blanket when animals sleep high in the crown of trees.

The hind legs are longer than the front and sharp claws grow on them. Such claws help easily climb the trunks of trees, as well as hanging down the branches down. In addition, kinkazh can turn their feet almost back, which allows them to easily run along the trunks of trees. Kinkajou's palms are naked, like monkeys. The language is long about 12.7 cm and thin, used to extract nectar and honey.

The females have two mammary glands. The smell glands are located on the chest and abdomen, which allows animals to mark their territory during travels during travels. Thirty -six sharp teeth grow in the mouth. The color of the wool: the top of the body and tail-from reddish-brown to yellowish-brown. Sometimes a black line passes along the back. The lower surface of the tail changes in color from yellow to brownish, the muzzle - from dark brown to black -shouldered.

Size: body - cm, tail - see The height at the withers is about 24 cm. Weight: adults from 1.4 to 4.6 kg on average 2.72 kg. Males are more than females. Life expectancy: about years in habitat: inhabitants of moist and dry rain tropical forests. Most of the range lies within the river water column. Enemies: Big cats and birds of prey, in particular: Jaguar, Obelot, Yaguarundi, Tyra, Margay and Fox.

Food: for the most part, a fruit diet, which also includes nectar and insects. Sometimes they raid bee nests due to honey. With their long thin languages, they drink honey from the hives and extract insects of termites and ants from their nests. Kinkzhu also eat small mammals and birds, which they catch their agile front paws with sharp claws. Behavior: Night wood mammals. For a day, kinkazh hide in hollows of hollow trees, appearing in the crowns of the tropical forest only with the onset of dusk.

For sleep, choose hollows located as high as possible on the tree trunk. During sleep, they often cover their eyes with front paws. According to the vertices of the trees, they move quickly, and when necessary, jump from wood to wood. At night, their big eyes help to find prey and the path for movement. The kinkau has excellently developed touch and smell, but the vision is slightly worse, which is due to their night way of life.

Voice: Kinkazhi vocal animals: it is difficult to see them, but often you can hear their piercing screams and barking throughout the night. Social structure: most of the time leads a secluded lifestyle. In places of abundance of food, for example, small temporary groups are sometimes formed on fruiting trees. The density of the population to individuals on km2, and in exceptional cases, and up to 75 individuals per km2.

He travels alone around the territory of his site. Family groups, consisting of females and her offspring of one or two cubs, are formed only for the period of growing offspring. Propagation: for the period of mating kinkaju, short -term marriage couples are created. The marriage ritual includes sniffing the male of a female who is in a state of estrus, as well as special biting her lower jaw and throat.

The male stimulates the female with a peculiar massage of her sides with the internal parts of her wrists, where the male has outstanding and sticking bones. The female gives birth to cubs every two years. In most parts of the range, reproduction occurs all year round, but in Surinam it falls in April-May. Puberty: males at 1.5 years old, and females by 2.5 years. Pregnancy: In days.

Offspring: Usually a female kinkazh gives birth to one cub. Newborns weigh gr. Eyes open at the age of days. The ears open on the fifth day. At the age of 7 weeks, the cub goes to thick food and can easily hang up the branch upwards or only on its tail.An adult color appears by a week. The role in human life: kinkaju is often contained as pets. But to keep at home as pets, you can only Kinkazhi diluted in captivity, and manually fed by a man.

Then kinkazh as a human child, very attached to a person, manual and affectionate. Otherwise, kinkazhi from nature, or aviaries, may be very not predictable, to attack the owners with irritable factors, with fright, homemade animals are terribly screaming, they do not even know how to make such sounds, since they have never heard them. Join the breeding kinkazh in captivity, this is very important for a population of their kind.