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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 823 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KINKAJOU (Cercoleptes caudivolvulus or Palos flavus) , the single See also:species of an aberrant genus of the See also:raccoon See also:family (Procyonidae). It has been split up into a number of See also:local races. A native of the forests of the warmer parts of See also:South and Central See also:America, the kinkajou is about the See also:size of a See also:cat, of a See also:uniform See also:pale, yellowish-See also:brown See also:colour, nocturnal and arboreal in its habits, feeding on See also:fruit, See also:honey, eggs and small birds and mammals, and is of a tolerably See also:gentle disposition and easily tamed.

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