Olinguito
An article on the CNN website on August 16, 2013, talked about the rediscovery of a mammal called the Olinguito in the Andean cloud forests. I was due to arrive in Ecuador on the evening of August 22. Because our first stop would be the Bellavista Lodge in the Andes, I thought I would ask about it when I got there. When I arrived, I discovered that the lodge had been monitoring and feeding a pair of Olinguitos each evening for the previous twelve months. At first, the people at the lodge thought they were seeing odd looking Kinkajous. The Olinguito looks like a Kinkajou who needs a haircut. The longer hair makes the Olinguito look like a teddy bear. Compared to a Kinkajou, it is redder on the back and lighter underneath and has a less prehensile tail.
Olinguito
An article on the CNN website on August 16, 2013, talked about the rediscovery of a mammal called the Olinguito in the Andean cloud forests. I was due to arrive in Ecuador on the evening of August 22. Because our first stop would be the Bellavista Lodge in the Andes, I thought I would ask about it when I got there. When I arrived, I discovered that the lodge had been monitoring and feeding a pair of Olinguitos each evening for the previous twelve months. At first, the people at the lodge thought they were seeing odd looking Kinkajous. The Olinguito looks like a Kinkajou who needs a haircut. The longer hair makes the Olinguito look like a teddy bear. Compared to a Kinkajou, it is redder on the back and lighter underneath and has a less prehensile tail.