White-Nosed Coati

The white-nosed coati is sexually dimorphic in body size as males are much larger than females.

The white-nosed coati weighs about 4-6 kilograms, or 8.8-13.2 pounds.

However, males are much larger than females. Small females can weigh as little as 2.5 kilograms (5.5 pounds), while large males can weigh as much as 12.2 kilograms (27 pounds).


Image | ©️ pedrik, Some Rights Reserved, (CC BY 2.0)
Sources | (Grzimek, 1990; Macdonald, 1995; Marceau, 2001; Nowak, 1999; Schmidly & Davis, 2004; The Wikimedia Foundation, 2020)

 

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