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SpeciesCarnivoraProcyonidae
Carnivores

🐾Olinguito

Bassaricyon neblina Helgen, Pinto, Kays, Helgen, Tsuchiya, Quinn, Wilson & Maldonado, 2013

The olinguito is a mammal of the raccoon family Procyonidae that lives in montane forests in the Andes of western Colombia and Ecuador. It was classified as belonging to a new species in 2013. The specific name neblina is Spanish for fog or mist, referring to the cloud forest habitat of the olinguito.

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Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
not recorded
Body length
1.28 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
23 years
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Everything we know about the Olinguito

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

Body length
1.28 mestimated
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Maximum lifespan
23 yearsestimated
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Generation length
7.58 yearsestimated
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Gestation
115 daysestimated
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Litter size
about 2estimated
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Trophic level
Omnivoreestimated
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Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixedestimated
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estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured.

Not recorded for Olinguito yet: body mass, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Closest relative on this site
🦝 Raccoon — last shared an ancestor ≈ 15 million years ago.
In other languages
Anden-Makibär (de), Bassaricyon neblina (es), Bassaricyon neblina (fr), Bassaricyon neblina (it), โอลิงกิโต (th), olinguito (ca) … and 24 more languages
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