Kinkajous, with their flexible limbs and grasping tails, likewise navigate the canopy from one branch to another, until there is nothing left to swing to except the ground and the perilous highway.

Kinkajous live in tropical rainforests from southern Mexico through Brazil, according to Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, where the one found in Washington was taken to live temporarily.

A wandering kinkajou, a small mammal that lives in the rainforests of Mexico and Central and South America, was spotted outside of Yakima, Washington.