NOUN
- raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings
How To Use cacomistle In A Sentence
- For example, Itzaj form a group of arboreal animals, including monkeys as well as tree-dwelling procyonids (kinkajou, cacomistle, raccoon) and squirrels (a rodent). How To Study Intuitions: Examples from the Adult and Developmental Literatures
- In this terrain the cacomistle, a catlike raccoon, lives in rock crevices.
- For the most part, cacomistles are solitary.
- George Clarke: Regarding the comment - If there's one qualm however, it's that it veers into overly serious ... cacomistle: Aside from too much wire work, it was awesome. Kung Fu Cinema
- The cacomistle of Costa Rica is similar to the ring-tailed cat of North America, having a very bushy white tail with black rings and white spectacles around the eyes.
- Like their cousins the cacomistles and ringtailed cats, Kinkajous can turn their hind feet backwards, so that the clawed toes can be used when descending head-first.
- Humans will hunt the cacomistle for its fur and meat, and will kill it when it preys on poultry.
- In Utah I associate the cacomistle with the sandstone desert of the Colorado Plateau.