Touching down at a wet cold and foggy Gatwick Airport on Tuesday it hardly seemed possible that just a week earlier we had been awakened by these fellows crashing through the mangrove swamp outside our apartment on Mexico’s Mayan Riviera.
White nosed coati
It was a family troop of white nosed coati, relatives of the raccoon. These fellows were pretty bold, almost as soon as they saw me with my camera they were happily posing,
We are coming to get you
and then up onto the balcony looking for breakfast.
Where’s the bacon?
Having seen their sharp pointy teeth I popped back inside and shut the door before we had any kind of misunderstanding. I imagine the apartment’s previous occupants must have been feeding them, but I wasn’t up for that in my opinion wild animals should be foraging for wild food not being fed from an all-inclusive buffet breakfast. Mind you if anyone else wanted to feed them by hand that was up to them and I wasn’t going to miss a good photo-op for any eco-hippy principles.
Family breakfast
Especially as they were taking the risk of bites, scratches, tetanus, blood poisoning and fleas.
Gimme, gimme gimme
shipscooksstuff 
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It was just too hard to resist
I will never understand why people insist on feeding wild animals and then have the nerve to complain when the inevitable happens, ugh!
And what often happens is someone gets bitten and the exterminator is called.
So true and sad (for the animals) lol
Bold little critters – actually not so little…
And they do have great big sharp teeth!
They’re cute – at least from a distance!
So is the hedgehog in our garden but he’s covered in fleas!
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I’ve long liked coatis, but from the far side of the glass partitions or mesh screens. I do hope sometime I’ll be able to visit some in their natural environment.