Western Mountain Coati (Nasuella olivacea)

The western mountain coati or western dwarf coati is a small procyonid, found in cloud forest and páramo at altitudes of 1,300–4,250 metres in the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. A population discovered in the Apurímac–Cuzco region of southern Peru has tentatively been identified as the western mountain coati, but may represent an undescribed taxon.

Until 2009, the western mountain coati usually included the eastern mountain coati as a subspecies, but that species is overall smaller,.. more