Potos flavus (8973438737)🐾

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SpeciesCarnivoraProcyonidae
Carnivores

🐾Kinkajou

Potos flavus (Schreber, 1774)

킨카주(kinkajou, Potos flavus)는 올링고와 코아티, 라쿤 그리고 알락꼬리고양이와 카코미슬고양이 등을 포함하고 있는 아메리카너구리과에 속하는 열대우림 포유류의 일종이다. 킨카주속(Potos)의 유일종이다. 킨카주는 페럿 또는 원숭이로 착각할 수도 있지만, 전혀 관련이 없다. 중앙아메리카와 남아메리카의 토착종으로 주로 과식성, 수상성 생활을 하는 포유류이다. 사람들 눈에 잘 띄지 않지만, 그 이유는 야행성 동물이기 때문으로 멸종위기종은 아니다. 그러나 애완용 동물용 또는 지갑이나 말 안장을 만들기 위한 모피를 얻기 위해 사냥된다.

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≈ 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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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
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  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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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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