The name coati or coatimundi is borrowed from the Tupian Indian language. The prefix "coati" means "belt" and "tim" means "nose".
Area: South American nosoha is found in the tropical regions of South America: from Colombia and Venezuela to Uruguay, northern Argentina, and it is also found in Ecuador.
Description: The head is narrow with a slightly upward, elongated and very flexible nose. The ears are small and round, with white rims on the inside. The fur is short, thick and fluffy. The tail is long and is used for balance when moving. The tail has light yellowish rings alternating with black or brown rings.
The South American nosefish has short and powerful legs. The ankles are very mobile, thanks to which animals can climb down from the tree with both the front and rear ends of the body. The claws on the toes are long, the soles are bare. Thanks to its strong clawed paws, the nosuha successfully uses them to dig out insect larvae from under rotten logs.
The canines are very sharp, and the molars and premolars have high and sharp edges.
Dental formula - i3/3, c1/1, p4/4, m2/2, 40 teeth in total.
Color: The South American nosoha is characterized by wide variability in color not only within its range, but even among babies from the same litter.
Typically, the body color varies from orange or reddish to dark brown. The muzzle is usually a uniform brown or black color. Pale, lighter spots are located above, below and behind the eyes.
The neck is yellowish. Paws - from dark brown to black. The tail is two-colored, the rings are sometimes faintly visible.
Size: Body length - 73-136 cm (average 104.5 cm). Tail length - 32-69 cm. Height at withers 30 cm.
Weight: 3-6 kg (average 4.5 kg).
Lifespan: In nature 7-8 years. The maximum life expectancy in captivity reached 17 years and 8 months.
Voice: Females use barking vocalizations to alert their clan members to the presence of danger. They also make whimpering sounds to keep the young close to them during the weaning process.
Habitat: From scrubland to primary evergreen rain forest.
Nosuh can be found in lowland forests, wooded river areas, dense bushes and rocky areas. Thanks to human influence, they now prefer secondary forests and forest edges. On the eastern and western slopes of the Andes mountains they are found up to 2500 meters above sea level.
Enemies: Jaguars, pumas, ocelots, jaguarundis, as well as large birds of prey, boa constrictors. Hunted by humans for meat.
Food: South American bats are primarily omnivores and typically seek out fruits and invertebrates. They eat eggs, beetle larvae and other insects, scorpions, centipedes, spiders, ants, termites, lizards, small mammals, rodents, and even carrion when it is available to them.
They can be found in landfills, where they search through human garbage and select anything edible from it. Sometimes South American roaches eat chickens from local farmers.
Behavior: Usually active during the day. Animals spend most of their active time foraging for food, and at night they sleep in trees, which also serve to make a den and give birth to offspring.
When the noses are threatened on the ground, they run into the trees; when predators threaten in the tree, they easily run to the end of the branch of one tree, and then jump to the lower branch of the same or even another tree.
An analysis of the structure of the eyes of the South American nose has shown that they contain a special layer, which indicates that their daytime activity has evolved from a nocturnal ancestor. In addition, it was established that the nose has color vision. Unlike kinkajou ( Potos flavus), the South American nose demonstrates the ability to distinguish shades of colors.
Nosukhi are good climbers and swimmers. They walk slowly on the ground, although they can gallop over short distances. Their average movement speed is approximately 1 m/s.
The anal glands have a special structure, and they are unique among Carnivora. They are a glandular area located along the upper edge of the anus, containing a series of bursae that are opened by four or five incisions along the sides. The fatty secretion released from these glands is used to mark territory.
Social structure: Female South American noses live in groups of 4-20 individuals, sometimes up to 30 animals. Such a group includes several mature females, the remaining members are their immature cubs. These groups are very mobile, as noses move a lot in search of food. Males lead a solitary lifestyle and only join family groups of females during the mating season. Soon after mating they leave the group.
Each family group has its own territory, which is usually about 1 km in diameter. The home ranges of different groups may overlap. South American noses in such groups participate in social care and are more protected from enemies than solitary individuals.
Reproduction: During the mating season, one male is accepted into the group of females and young people. All mature females living in the group mate with him.
The period of raising offspring is confined to the time of fruit ripening.
Breeding season/period: October-March, young people are born in April-June.
Puberty: In females at 2 years, in males - about 3 years.
Pregnancy: 74-77 days.
Offspring: In a litter, the South American nosoha usually gives birth to 3-7 (on average 5) cubs.
The female gives birth to her offspring in a den, which she builds in isolated tree hollows, during which time she leaves her social group.
Newborn cubs are helpless: they have no fur, they are blind and weigh only 75-80 grams. The eyes open at about 10 days. At the age of 24 days, young noses can already walk and focus their eyes. At 26 days, the cubs are able to climb; they switch to dense food at the age of 4 months.
When the cubs are five to six weeks old, the female returns to her family group.
Benefit/harm for humans: South American beetles help control populations of some pest species. They (as prey) provide food for a number of predators, and are probably important in the dispersal of seeds of some plant species.
Sometimes they cause damage while harvesting fruits; they are also known to attack poultry.
Population/Conservation Status: In Uruguay, South American noses are protected by Appendix III of the CITES Convention.
The main threats to this species are invasion of its habitats (clearing of forests for mining, extraction of timber, etc.) and hunting.
Ten subspecies are currently recognized: Nasua nasua boliviensis, Nasua nasua candace, Nasua nasua dorsalis, Nasua nasua manium, Nasua nasua montana, Nasua nasua nasua, Nasua nasua quichua, Nasua nasua solitaria, Nasua nasua spadicea, Nasua nasua vittata.
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Nosuha, or coati, is a small mammal from the raccoon family of the genus Nosuha. In total, the genus of these animals includes four species:
- South American coati;
- White-nosed coati;
- Nelson's Coati;
- Mountain coati.
Full description of noses
The nose is the size of a small dog. The length of a coati without a tail is 41-67 cm, the tail is 32-69 cm. Height at the withers is 20-30 cm. An adult animal weighs only 6-11 kg. The body is elongated, paws are of medium length. The head is narrow with a long muzzle. The hind limbs are slightly longer than the forelimbs. The coat color is reddish-brown, the tail has alternating light and dark rings. The coat is short and soft; in species with longer hair it is coarser.
Where do noses live?
Coatis inhabit tropical forests Central and South America, also found in USA on southeastern Arizona, southwest New Mexico and extreme south Texas. Sometimes animals are found on the edge of deserts.
Coati wild
Lifestyle and reproduction of noses in the wild
Nosukhi, unlike their close relatives raccoons, who prefer to live alone, love communication and live in families. As a rule, coatis form large groups. The size of one such flock can range from 10 to 20 individuals, sometimes there are groups of up to 40 members. Often such flocks are family communities, including females and young animals of different ages.
Although the animals feel quite comfortable alone. Thus, the females expel matured males from their group. This happens when males reach two years of age. After leaving the pack, they begin to lead a separate lifestyle, with the exception of the breeding season. Each male lives on his own territory, its area does not exceed 1 km² and often overlaps with the possessions of family groups. However, when meeting any cruelty, animals do not show each other; their communication can be either friendly or hostile.
Nosuhs have their own means of communication - a long tail with characteristic ring patterns. With its help, the animal can express its mood. When a coati is in a good mood, its tail is raised like a pipe; when it is lowered, it can indicate a whole range of feelings - aggression, fear, anxiety or irritation. In addition, noses can make a variety of sounds, and in the tropical forest you can often hear the cheerful hubbub of these funny animals.
A pair of socks
During the breeding season, males begin to visit females from the group, trying to win their sympathy by preening their fur and other gestures. Having copulated with the female, the male goes home again. Cubs are born after 2.5 months in spring or summer. A litter often contains from 2 to 6 babies.
What do noses eat?
Coati – predatory animals. The basis of their diet is insects, caterpillars, spiders, shellfish, found in fallen leaves, earthen holes and under rotten tree logs. Also does not disdain small rodents, birds and amphibians. They will not be lazy and will even climb a tree if they sense that there is a nest with eggs or chicks there. Noses love to eat fruits and plants, for example, bananas.
Before eating prey, the coati rolls it on the ground with its front paws for a long time, partially getting rid of the unpleasant odor inherent in some caterpillars and spiders in this way. In addition, they erase hard hairs that can injure the oral cavity.
Sometimes nosuhs raid agricultural lands, damaging field crops. They also get into chicken coops, stealing small poultry.
The animals' peak activity is during the daytime, although on a hot, sultry day, coatis prefer to rest in the shade of trees. Nosukhi go hunting in the morning or evening, when the heat subsides. Sometimes, in search of food, the family is divided into two parts.
Squad - Predators
Family - Raccoons
Genus/Species - Nasua nasua and others
Basic data:
DIMENSIONS
Body length: 41-67 cm.
Tail length: 40-69 cm.
Height at withers: 30 cm.
Weight: 4-5.6 kg.
REPRODUCTION
Puberty: from 2 years old.
Mating season: at different times.
Pregnancy: 74-77 days.
Number of cubs: 2-6.
LIFESTYLE
Habits: The noses (see photo of the animal) are active during the day; males live alone, females with cubs form groups.
What it eats: invertebrates, reptiles, mammals.
Lifespan: about 14 years old.
RELATED SPECIES
There are 3 types of nosuha of the genus Nasua: common nosuha, coati and Nelson's nosuha. Their closest relative is the mountain nosoha - the only species of its genus.
Ordinary nose (2015). Video (00:05:45)
Nosefish live in a variety of places, from tropical rainforests to sparsely vegetated semi-deserts in the southern United States. Mountain noses live exclusively in the Andes, where they can be found right up to the forest border. Nelson's nose can be observed on the island of Cozumel, which belongs to Mexico.
REPRODUCTION
During the mating season, each adult male nosukha tries to create a family - a group of females with cubs. At this time, males arrange fights among themselves, the winners of which return to their families with honor and participate in the wool cleaning ritual. The male marks the territory in which the family lives with odorous marks and protects it from the encroachments of competitors. Competitors strive to avoid encounters with the sharp claws of the owner of the territory. After mating, the females kick out the male, probably to protect the future babies from the danger of being eaten by their own father. Pregnancy in all types of noses lasts 2.5 months. 3-4 weeks before the birth of the cubs, the pregnant female leaves the flock and looks for a place suitable for giving birth. Nosukha litters can contain 2-6 cubs. Newborns grow very quickly. When a mother returns with her babies, young animals and mature females who currently do not have cubs help her raise their offspring. Occasionally, the family is visited by the father, who takes care of the fur of the grown-up babies. According to some scientists, he does this in order to remember their smell and not kill them during the hunt.
WHAT DOES IT EAT?
Nosefish prey primarily on insects - beetles, termites and ants, as well as arthropods - spiders, scorpions, terrestrial crustaceans and centipedes. Their diet includes frogs, lizards and small mammals. Most of all, noses love to feast on lizards and turtles. Animals have to climb trees to get tasty fruits. Typically, noses that live in groups also feed together. When noses explore heaps of fallen leaves, the tails of these animals are raised vertically upward. With their long proboscises, noses sniff all the objects that come their way, trying to catch the smell of insects in the wood dust. Having noticed a small animal nearby, the nose immediately rushes after it. It pins large prey to the ground with its paws and kills it with a bite to the neck. The nose takes biting insects with its front paws and rolls them on the ground in order to separate the sting.
LIFESTYLE
One of the reasons for the strong popularity of nosukh is their varied menu. Recently, the range of nosuhs has begun to expand southward. Animals live in tropical forests and on mountain slopes, in savannas and semi-deserts, where they move freely on the ground.
Males that have reached sexual maturity stay alone, while females, young males and cubs form flocks of up to 40 animals. Noses are most active in the morning and at sunset - at this time they feed. Adult animals devote a lot of time to caring for their fur, and young animals frolic and arrange comic fights.
Nose roosts roost in small groups and sleep curled up in the forks of branches or in the hollows of trees. The individual territory of a nosukha rarely occupies an area of more than one square kilometer. The territories of different packs usually overlap with the domains of adult single males. Males living in neighboring territories are tolerant of each other.
GENERAL PROVISIONS. DESCRIPTION
In the tropical rainforests of the Amazon, dry forests with thorny undergrowth and even in subtropical thickets of thorny bushes with cacti - everywhere the nosuha feels at home. It is not found only in the highlands of the Cordillera and on the open plains of the pampas.
Nosuha is the closest relative. The body length with a long tail can reach 1.5 m. It has a compact structure and weighs a lot for its size - about 10 kg. By nature, the nose is sociable and likes to stay in groups, sometimes of several dozen individuals. Usually searches for food during daylight hours, except in the midday heat. It feeds on a variety of fruits and small animals. It climbs trees well, but spends most of its time on the ground. Nosukhi carefully search the crowns of trees and thickets of bushes, turn over stones and break rotten stumps with strong claws. The female gives birth to 2-6 cubs.
INTERESTING FACTS. DID YOU KNOW THAT...
- At the age of 3-4 weeks, babies try to get out of the nest in which they were born. A caring mother catches them and brings them back.
- In South America, the nose is hunted for meat. Local residents do not consider the fur of these animals valuable.
- Noses easily adapt to different living conditions, but do not tolerate frost. In the mountains, where the air temperature often drops below zero, snouts often freeze the tips of their proboscis.
- Until recently, scientists considered male noses to be a separate species, living separately from females with cubs.
- Exotic temperamental noses are a favorite object of observation for zoo visitors.
FOUR TYPES OF NOSE. GENERAL SIGNS
Wool: usually reddish-brown, limbs darker in color. The chest and belly are beige.
Tail: very long and fluffy, with noticeable transverse stripes.
Head: narrow head with a long nose without a face mask.
Claws: long curved claws are used for climbing trees.
- Habitat of noses
The word "nosuha" (coatimundi or coat) comes from the Tupian Indian language: "coati" means "belt", "mun" means "nose". The animals belong to the raccoon family. Nosukhi got their name due to their movable trunk-shaped nose.
South American nose ( Nasua nasua) is found in tropical regions of South America, from Colombia and Venezuela to Uruguay, Ecuador and northern Argentina. On the eastern and western slopes of the Andes they are found up to 2500 meters above sea level. Within their range, they inhabit a variety of habitats, from scrubland to primary evergreen rain forest. They can be found in lowland forests, riverine woodlands, dense bushes and rocky areas. Thanks to human influence, they now prefer secondary forests and forest edges.
The South American nose is characterized by a narrow head with an elongated and upwardly directed, very flexible, movable nose. The ears are small and round, with white rims on the inside. The muzzle is usually a uniform brown or black color. Pale, lighter spots are located above, below, and behind the eyes. The neck is yellowish. 
The legs are short and powerful, while their ankles are very mobile, thanks to which the noses can climb down from the tree with both the front and rear ends of the body down. The claws on the toes are long, the soles are bare. Thanks to its strong clawed paws, the nosuha easily climbs trees and successfully uses them to search for food in the soil and forest floor. The legs are usually dark brown to black in color. 
Body length reaches 73-136 cm; the average is 104.5 cm; tail length - 32-69 cm, height at the shoulders - about 30 cm. The South American nose weighs on average about 4.5 kg, but there are individuals up to 6 kg.
Their body is covered with short, thick and fluffy fur. The South American nosoha is characterized by wide variability in color not only within its range, but even among babies from the same litter. Typically, the body color varies from orange or reddish to dark brown.
The tail of the nose is long, two-colored, it has light yellowish rings alternating with black or brown rings, sometimes the rings are faintly visible.
South American noses are usually active during the day, most of which they spend on the ground in search of food, while at night they sleep in trees, which also serve to make a den and give birth to offspring. When they are threatened by danger on the ground, they hide from it in the trees; when the enemy is on a tree, they easily jump from a branch of one tree to a lower branch on the same or even another tree.
South American noses are not only good tree climbers and good swimmers. On the ground they walk slowly, although at short distances they can gallop, but they have never been observed to trot. Their average speed of movement is approximately 1 m per second.
South American noses have blade-like fangs, and the molars and premolars have relatively high crowns with sharp tubercles. Their dental formula is i 3/3, s 1/1, p 4/4, m 2/2, with a total of 40 teeth. Despite such a powerful dental arsenal, they are omnivores. Their diet includes beetle larvae and other insects, ants, termites, centipedes, spiders, scorpions, lizards, small mammals (usually rodents), they eat bird eggs, fruits and even carrion when it is available to them. They also met in landfills, searching through human garbage and picking out anything edible from it. Sometimes South American roaches steal chickens from local farmers.
South American noses themselves have a variety of enemies, but most of all they are annoyed by large wild cats: jaguars, pumas, ocelots, jaguarundis, as well as large birds of prey and boas. In nature, their life expectancy is 7-8 years, and the maximum life expectancy in captivity is 17 years and 8 months.
South American noses, depending on gender and age, lead different lifestyles. So females live in groups of 4-20 or more individuals. Such a group includes several mature females, and the remaining members are their immature cubs. These groups are very mobile; the animals move around a lot in search of food.
Family groups live on their own territory, which is usually about 1 km. in diameter. The home ranges of different groups often overlap. South American noses have anal glands unique among Carnivora in their structure. They are a glandular area located along the upper edge of the anus, containing a series of bursae that are opened by four or five incisions on the sides. The fatty secretion released from these glands is used to mark territory, possibly in combination with urine.
South American noses in such groups often participate in social care, and are more protected from enemies than single individuals. Females use barking vocalizations to alert members of a friendly clan to the presence of danger.
Males usually lead a solitary lifestyle and only during the mating season do they join family groups of females with young ones. During the mating season, which is usually from October to March, one male is accepted into the group of females and young ones. All mature females living in the group mate with this male, and soon after mating he leaves the group.
The period of raising offspring is timed to coincide with the time of maximum abundance of food, in particular at the time of fruit ripening.
Females after 74-77 days of pregnancy give birth 3-7; on average 5 cubs in dens, which they set up in well-protected, cozy tree hollows. At this time, the female leaves her social group. Here, in the nest, the newborn babies will remain until they are able to walk and climb trees.
Newborns are very helpless: they are hairless, blind and weigh only 75-80 g. Babies' eyes open at the age of about 10 days. At 24 days of age, noses can already walk and focus their eyes. The young are able to climb at 26 days and completely switch to solid food at 4 months. At five to six weeks of age, the female and her young return to their family group. Females often make whimpering sounds to keep their young close to them during the weaning process. Mothers continue to nurse the young until they are finally weaned at about 4 months of age.
Young females reach sexual or reproductive maturity at an average of 2 years of age, and males begin to breed at about 3 years of age.
South American moths are protected by Convention Sites III in Uruguay, but the main threats to this species are human encroachment and hunting.
Currently, ten subspecies of Nasua nasua are recognized and described: N. n. boliviensis Cabrera, 1956. N. n. candace Tomas, 1912. N. n. dorsalis Gray, 1866. N. n. manium: Tomas, 1912. N. n. montana: Tschudi, 1845. N. n. nasua: Linnseus, 1766. N. n. Quichua: Tomas, 1901. N. n. solitaria: Schinz, 1821. N. n. spadicea: Olfers, 1818. N. n. vittata: Tschudi, 1845.
To warn the group of danger, females make barking sounds. And in order to keep the cubs near her, the female uses whimpering sounds.
Lifespan: In nature 7-8 years. The maximum life expectancy in captivity reached 17 years and 8 months.
EUROPEAN NATURALISTS, who first saw the noses, based on the color of the coat and behavioral characteristics, identified almost 30 species of these animals, but modern taxonomists have reduced this number to 3. This is not surprising - the behavior and morphology of the noses are indeed extremely variable, even females and males behave so different that they could easily be mistaken for different species.
These differences mainly concern the social behavior of noses: males lead a solitary lifestyle, while females live in well-organized groups - “clans”. The behavioral relationships of noses are very complex and include cooperation reminiscent of the socialization of primates; for example, clan members often groom each other, care for others' young, and work together to ward off predators.
The nose is easily recognized by its long, movable muzzle, the tip of which extends far beyond the lower jaw. Inside this long “nose” there are many sensitive receptors, thanks to which the animal distinguishes odors. Countless muscles give the nose special flexibility, which allows the nose to explore various recesses and grope for prey in them. Noses are active during the day; they spend a lot of time combing forest undergrowth and litter in search of food, stirring up leaves and hastily looking for invertebrates or fruits.
Although nosuchus inhabit some arid regions, such as the southwestern United States, they are more common in tropical forests.
MEMBERSHIP IN THE NOSUKH CLAN
Which animals are legitimate members of the Nosukh clan? One might assume that clans are formed on the basis of consanguinity, but genetic studies show that in fact they also include some unrelated individuals. Large-scale field studies conducted in Panama have shown that these unrelated moths are the most likely targets of aggression from other animals. They are pushed to the periphery of the clan's common territory, where there is a high risk of becoming a victim of a predator. They have to pay a high price for sociality. But the final analysis showed that it is still more profitable for the nosuhs to remain in the clan and receive some advantages from this, such as access to food, than to leave it and be left alone.
Solitary males and social females
AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR In noses, the process of settlement proceeds unusually: females rarely leave the clan in which they were born, while males separate from it at the beginning of the third year of life, but they are not in a hurry to leave their native area and continue to use it. They can live close to where they were born and still minimize competition for the females of their clan.
The territories of single males can overlap by 72%; neighbors are often relatives. They practically do not defend their areas, with the exception of places where there is a lot of food. Thus, fruit-bearing trees can provoke short-term aggressive behavior. The territories of clans consisting of females and their immature offspring can overlap by 66%, with only the core territory being used exclusively by a given clan.
Risk of extinction of animals in an isolated population
PRESERVATION IN NATURE Many species of noses are not yet in danger of extinction - some of them are even classified as common animals. However, this is not to say that there is no cause for concern. One of the little-studied subspecies of nasua, Nasua nark a nclsoni (possibly an independent species), living on the island of Cozumel in Mexico, is threatened with destruction due to rapidly developing industry and tourism, and the mountain nosua (Nasuclla olivacca), whose range is limited to inaccessible high mountain areas in the Andes of western Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador, has proven to be very sensitive to deforestation and human land use. They are currently classified by the IUCN as a species of uncertain status (not enough information.)
The common nose (lat. Nasua nasua) is a funny predatory mammal of the Raccoon family (lat. Procyonidae), reminiscent of a fox. It lives in Central and South America. Local Indians adore this animal.
Nosukhi are distinguished by their friendly and sociable character. They are easily tamed and love to play with people.
Farmers treat them more coolly because of their habit of periodically visiting chicken coops for young chickens, so they set traps for them and shoot them on the approaches to their property. Fortunately, there are still a lot of these beauties and their population is not in danger.
Spreading
The habitat of the nosefish extends from the southern states of the United States to the northern provinces of Uruguay and Argentina. The animals are perfectly adapted to life in a wide variety of natural conditions. They thrive in tropical forests and dry savannas. In the mountains they can live at altitudes up to 2500 m above sea level and are not found only in the High Andes.
Most of all they like to settle in coniferous and deciduous forests of the temperate climate zone. Noses can easily endure both summer heat and winter cold.
Behavior
Common nostrils are active throughout the day. For the night, animals roost on thick tree branches. Early in the morning, without waiting for dawn, they descend to the ground. After the morning toilet, which consists of thoroughly cleaning the fur, they go fishing. They go hunting in high spirits, always holding their tail up.
The animal searches for food by carefully rummaging through fallen leaves and turning over stones and branches. Its diet includes spiders, earthworms, various insects, crabs, lizards, small rodents and frogs.
Noses love to feast on ripe fruits, plucking them from branches with their paws or picking them up on the ground. They rest at noon only on the hottest days.
Females with cubs live in groups of up to 20 individuals, while males prefer to stay apart in splendid isolation. Some males try to join groups of females, but are usually met with fierce resistance.
Nosushi communicate with each other using a rich set of sounds, signal poses and developed facial expressions.
Their natural enemies are boa constrictors, birds of prey, jaguars and. In case of danger, they usually try to hide in the nearest hole or hole.
To escape from predators, they can run for up to three hours at a time at speeds of up to 30 km/h. On calm days, nosuhs sedately and leisurely walk around their home areas (40-300 hectares), covering from 2 to 7 km per day.
Reproduction
During the mating season, females become more docile and allow one male into their group. To attract a handsome man, all the ladies begin to intensively and for a long time clean their fur, making an indelible impression on the wandering gentleman with their unheard-of cleanliness. By the end of the season, the male is expelled from the group.
Pregnancy lasts from 7 to 8 weeks. Approximately 10-12 days before giving birth, the female leaves the group and begins building a nest at the top of the tree. Childbirth usually occurs on days 74-77.
3-5 blind, deaf and toothless cubs are born. The body length of a newborn baby is 25-30 cm and weighs from 100 to 180 g. On the tenth day, babies begin to see clearly, and on the fourteenth they begin to hear. In the third week of their life, they make their first forays from their mother’s nest and begin to explore the surrounding area.
Mothers take very good care of their offspring, constantly licking and feeding them.
At six weeks old, the cubs can already follow their mother everywhere. She takes them to her group, where all the other females very joyfully welcome the new arrival and begin to take care of him.
At 2 months, babies acquire a full set of baby teeth and gradually switch to regular solid food. The noses become sexually mature at the age of two.
Description
The head is elongated and narrow. The long muzzle ends with a movable nose. The ears are rounded and small. Close-set small round brown eyes.
The tail is covered with thick short fur. When walking, the animal rests on the entire width of its paws. The toes are armed with strong claws.
The lifespan of the common moth in the wild is about 14 years. They live at home for 17 years or more.