Coati

I would like to enter a brand new Olympic competition: the Coney Island Hot Log Eating Contest.  I really wanted to participate and climbed and played.  But that dang AOG photographer couldn't get any of those shots in focus because she couldn't believe her eyes.

Let me tell you a bit about myself. Picture a raccoon with a slimmer body and a longer tail and a snout. Add white fur around the eyes and nose, and you have me: a white-nosed coatimundi {koh-ah-tee-muhn-dee}. Living mostly from Mexico to South America, I am the only species of this raccoon relative found in the United States:  in the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts of Arizona.