Its name means “honey bear,” but it’s not a bear. It’s a carnivore, though it mostly eats fruit. It has a prehensile tail, but it’s not a primate. The kinkajou is awash in contradictions. But what is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image provided by the Washington Department of Transportation shows a kinkajou at the Selah Creek Rest Area Eastbound in ...

The man suffered non-life-threatening injuries from the animal, including a bite on the foot and scratches on his leg A Florida man will likely think twice about feeding wild animals after he was ...

SOUTH MIAMI, Fla. – The South Florida owner of an exotic kinkajou was reunited with his pet, Wednesday, two days after the rare animal plopped down on a sleeping 99-year-old woman. WSVN7-Miami’s ...

Imagine for a moment you're asleep in your bed when you slowly come to the realization that something is in the bed with you. You awake to see an odd animal sleeping on your chest, one that looks like ...

A small raccoon-like mammal known as a "kinkajou" was rescued earlier this week after being found climbing a dusty Washington road pole. The nocturnal critters are indigenous to the rainforest and ...

Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting the kinkajou. Kinkajous are called “honey bears,” “night ...

An elderly woman in Miami woke up to quite a surprise when she found an exotic animal caressing her face. Late Monday night, the woman was startled when she woke up staring at a kinkajou, which looks ...

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 rainforest habitat ...

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