INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Silly Safaris introduced Carlos, a Kinkajou, highlighting the animal’s traits and behaviors. Kinkajous are often mistaken for monkeys but are a part of the raccoon family, native ...

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Shy kinkajous are among the unfortunate mammals that end up victim to vehicles on the roads of Costa Rica. (Franklin Lopez Martinez/WUFT News) Costa Rica’s highways are packed with animal lovers ...

Costa Rica’s highways are packed with animal lovers searching for a glimpse of a sloth or red-eyed tree frog. Too many of the nation’s iconic animals are killed by vehicle strikes on the busy roads.

A lost kinkajou was recently found at a rest stop near Yakima, creating quite a buzz. This rare animal, more commonly seen in Central and South American rainforests, ended up in an unusual spot far ...

Oscar the Grouch made his home on Sesame Street. Oscar the kinkajou found a home at the Trevor Zoo at Millbrook School in upstate New York. The kinkajou was found at the Selah Creek Rest Area outside ...

TACOMA, Wash. — The new home for a kinkajou found abandoned at a Yakima rest stop in June has been announced. "Oscar" is now housed at the Millbrook School's Trevor Zoo, it announced over the weekend.

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Why did the kinkajou cross the road? And what’s a kinkajou, anyway? One of the mammals — which look like a cross between a monkey and a tiny bear — was found far from its normal ...

A Washington police officer was puzzled when he discovered a strange creature wandering near a rest stop, especially since he’d never seen a kinkajou before! According to KCEN 6 News, this ...

A wandering kinkajou, a small mammal that lives in the rainforests of Mexico and Central and South America, was spotted outside of Yakima,... A 'honey bear' was spotted in Washington state, 2000 miles ...