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Kinkajou
(Potos flavus)

Found in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America, the Kinkajou is a nocturnal, honey-loving mammal more closely related to raccoons than to the primates it superficially resembles.

 

It has a fully prehensile tail it uses as a fifth limb to navigate the forest canopy, and its long, slender tongue is specially adapted for extracting nectar from flowers — making it an important pollinator despite being a mammal rather than an insect!

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