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Potos flavus (8973438737)🐾

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SpeciesCarnivoraProcyonidae
Carnivores

🐾Kinkajou

Potos flavus (Schreber, 1774)

الكِنكَاج أو دُبّ العسل (الاسم العلمي: Potos flavus) (الإنجليزية: kinkajou) هو نوع من الثدييات يتبع جنس الكنكاج من فصيلة الراتونيات. موطنه أمريكة الوسطى يعيش في غابات مناطقها الاستوائية. يستعمل ذنبه كالقردة للانتقال من غصن إلى غصن ومن شجرة إلى أخرى.

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vs you
≈ 1/26th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
2.42 kg
Body length
0.63 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
38 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Kinkajou

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
2.42 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 3 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.63 m
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Brain mass
27 g
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Maximum lifespan
38 years
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  • 38 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
11 years
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Age at maturity
2.4 years
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Gestation
116 days
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  • 115 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
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Trophic level
Omnivore
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Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Home range
0.22 km²
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Population density
34 per km²
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Volume l
2.4 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Kinkajou yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyProcyonidae
  6. ›genusPotos
  7. ›speciesPotos flavus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. familyProcyonidae
  4. genusPotos
All 14 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderCaniformia
  13. familyProcyonidae
  14. genusPotos
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More about the Kinkajou

Closest relative on this site
🦡 American badger — last shared an ancestor ≈ 21 million years ago.
What it eats
fruit89%
insects and other invertebrates11%
In other languages
Cusu (es), Wickelbär (de), nachtaap (nl), farksodró (hu), kinkajú (ca), kynkažu (cs) … and 25 more languages

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