Agouti vs Coati - What's the difference?
agouti | coati |
A rodent similar in appearance to a guinea pig but having longer legs.
A fur containing a pattern of pigmentation in which individual hairs have several bands of light and dark pigment with black tips; any of several genes responsible for this pigmentation.
Any of several omnivorous mammals, of the genus Nasua , in order Carnivora, that live in the range from southern United States to northern Argentina.
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* 2002', Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, '''''Coati'' , ''International Wildlife Encyclopedia: Chickaree - crabs ,
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As nouns the difference between agouti and coati
is that agouti is a rodent similar in appearance to a guinea pig but having longer legs while coati is any of several omnivorous mammals, of the genus Nasua, in order Carnivora, that live in the range from southern United States to northern Argentina.agouti
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(en noun)See also
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(en noun)page 89,
- Prospectors and cowpunchers who see the animals most often, sometimes call them Mexican monkeys. Others believe the coati' to be a peculiar kind of arboreal anteater. More generally in this region, ' coatis are called “chulo bears” or simply “chulos,” and will be so referred to hereafter.
page 478,
- The coatis are four small, carnivorous mammals related to the raccoon, red panda and ringtail, or cacomistle. They range in size from 15 inches (38 cm) in the mountain coati, Nasuella olivacca'', to 16-26 inches (41-67 cm) long in the three species ''Nasua nasua'', ''N. nelsoni'' and ''N. narica .
page 88,
- Above: Maya effigy vessel depicting a red coati or opposum with some anthropomorphic traits.
