Adult male white-nosed coatis live territorial, solitary lives and establish non-overlapping ranges that they mark by spraying urine or dragging their abdomens on a surface and spreading anal secretions.
Adult male white-nosed coatis live solitary lives and establish ranges that they mark by spraying urine or dragging their abdomens on a surface and spreading anal secretions.
Male ranges do not overlap, and they will fight when they meet another male.
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• Sources | (Cuarón, Helgen, Reid, Pino, & González-Maya, 2016; Macdonald 1995; Marceau, 2001; Nowak 1999)
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