What I find interesting is that whilst the animals labelled "mountain coati" in the other picture seem to much resemble the ring-tailed [or red] coati from all one can see, the animals in this picture seem to somewhat resemble the pictures of mountain coati that can be found online - at least they are certainly not the white-nosed species!
@dillotest0 I thought that was funny, too! These ones were also smaller than the South American that I'm used to. I've seen photos of ones like this in places further west, but not over here, so it was interesting seeing them in person.
that said
if we are to assume that the animal in focus of the picture is of the Nasuella genus, I do question the purity of it -
in pictures of Nasuella found on the internet, the animals are typically darker than this one, and the tail is rather dark as well [the stripes only somewhat distinguishable]
where, this animal is fairly light for a Nasuella, and as seen in another picture, the tail is rather light, with stripes clearly distinguishable.
And so it leads me to suspect that this coati may not be a pure species at all, but maybe a Nasua x Nasuella mix, which seems fairly likely given that other coatis in the enclosure photographed more closely resemble Nasua, but still look somewhat impure as well.
I double checked with @TeaLovingDave while I was at the zoo, he's a bit of an expert on IDing them (or at least, I've asked him enough times ). The ones like this are being imported for roadside zoos and are being managed as a separate population, since they're calling them "red coati".
