That author does not say this taxus suillus was drawn from Nature, nor does he give any description of the animal itself; and indeed the snout alone of the coati is sufficient to distinguish it from any other quadruped.
The coati has a practice of gnawing his own tail, which, when not mutilated, is longer than his body, and which he generally rears aloft, and moves with ease in any direction.
Additionally there was a large number of coati skins.
THE COATI Closely allied to the racoons is the coati, or coati-mondi, which you may recognize at once by its very long snout.
And it descends the trunks of trees head first, just as the coati does.
The coati can climb quite as well as the racoons and spends most of its life in the trees, seldom coming down to the ground except to feed or to drink.
The coati is about a yard in length, nearly half of which belongs to the tail.
When he thought enough had been done, he disposed of Coati without moving a muscle of his countenance, by a left-handed jerk, which threw the delinquent high in air, head over heels.
Oxygen Consumption, Body Temperature and Heart Rate in the Coati (Nasua nasua).
The coati is not a treacherous animal, it is not given to lying in wait to make a covert attack from ambush, and being almost constantly on the move, it is a good show animal.
The temper of the coati mundi is essentially quarrelsome and aggressive.
As an example of temperament in small carnivores, we will cite the coati mundi of South America.
The raccoon belongs to North America, the coati to Central and Southern America.
The coati (Nasua nasica) is distinguished from the raccoon by a pointed nose.
When domesticated, as it is in Paraguay, the coati is kept in tether, as its climbing habits render it dangerous to ornaments and furniture.
Our next concern is with the family of the procyonidA| which includes several bear-like animals, the Raccoon and the Coatibeing the best known.
He always led the dogs by several yards in the chase, and had killed two coati at different times in single combats.
First one paw and then another relaxed, until, with a thud, the coati and iguana struck the ground together both stone-dead.
Suddenly the coati began to go slower and slower and then stopped short.
The coati tasted like roast 'possum, while the flesh of the giant lizard was as white and tender as chicken.
In spite of its size and the threatening, horrible appearance of its uplifted spines, the coati made short work of it, worrying it like a dog, and finally breaking its spine.
Some writers class the coati with the civets, but the creature has far more of the habits and appearance of a badger than of a civet cat; and therefore, whatever the anatomists may say, we shall consider the coati a badger.
In South America we find another form of badger in the Coati mondi, of which there are several varieties; and there, too, the racoon appears of a species distinct from those of the north.
Was strict Sir Andrew, in his Sabbath coat, Struck all a-heap to see a Coati mundi?
Fall from a modern long-tail'd coati More changes still!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coati" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
