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  San Diego Zoo's Got Questions? Cacomistle
The North American cacomistle Bassariscus astutus, also known as the ringtail, is a small cousin of the raccoon.
Baby cacomistles, called kits, are born blind, deaf, and toothless.
Cacomistles are found in the southwestern part of Oregon, parts of California, Colorado, and Utah, and even down into southern Mexico.
www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/got_questions_cacomistle.html   (173 words)

  
  Resources on Central American Cacomistle academic institutions
procyonids (kinkajou, cacomistle, raccoon) and squirrels (a rodent...
carnivores, carnivora: Genus Bassariscus Bassariscus astutus (ringtail) Bassariscus sumichrasti (CentralAmerican cacomistle).
Cacomistle, Olingo, Ocelot, Margay, Jaguarundi, puma and jaguar.
mongabay.org /conservation/Central_American_Cacomistle.htm   (1498 words)

  
 North American Cacomistle
The Cacomistle is a small aware cousin of the raccoon.
Cacomistles have usually from 1 - 5 youngsters born from May to June.
Cacomistles are sometime called ring-tailed cats, although they are not related to cats in anyway.
laurier.vsb.bc.ca /studentp/RyanY/CacoM.html   (255 words)

  
 Cacomistle
Cacomistles have from one to five young (usually three) born in May to June after an unknown period of gestation (estimated 40 — 70 days).
Cacomistle’s live in various habitats, most common in rocky terrain, such as jumbles of boulders, canyons, talus slopes, and rock piles.
The cacomistle is omnivorous and is a great leaper and climber, thanks to its semi-retractile claws and good tail for balancing.
itech.pjc.edu /sctag/cacomistle/Cacomistle.htm   (628 words)

  
 cacomistle. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Swift, agile, and able climbers, cacomistles prefer regions with trees, but they live in a variety of habitats.
They are sometimes found in pairs and make dens in hollow trees, caves, rock crevices, or abandoned buildings.
Cacomistles feed primarily on small animals but also eat some vegetable matter.
www.bartleby.com /65/ca/cacomist.html   (241 words)

  
 Lioncrusher's Domain -- Cacomistle (Bassariscus sumichrasti) facts and pictures
The cacomistle lives in the tropical evergreen rainforests and mountainous forests from southern Mexico to western Panama.
Cacomistles fall prey to predatory birds, ocelots, tayras, large snakes, and humans.
Cacomistle is derived directly from the Nahuatl word tlacomiztli, which roughly means "half mountain lion".
www.lioncrusher.com /animal.asp?animal=77   (374 words)

  
 Genus Bassariscus or cacomistle and ringtail
The term cacomistle is sometimes used to refer to the ringtail, Bassariscus astutus, a similar species.
Behavior:The cacomistle is nocturnal and omnivorous and is a great leaper and climber, thanks to its semi-retractile claws and long tail for balancing.
A relative of the raccoon, the cacomistle is a slender animal.
www.thewebsiteofeverything.com /animals/mammals/Carnivora/Procyonidae/Bassariscus   (494 words)

  
 Resources on Cacomistle academic institutions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Cacomistle : Utah's Hogle Zoo: A small, alert cousin of the raccoon with shorter limbs, and soft thick gray-tan fur and an enormous fluffy tail, striped with fl and white rings.
The cacomistle is nocturnal (active at night) and omnivorous (eats plants and animals).
Carnivora (carnivores) as Symbols (GeoSymbols): Arizona, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Procyonidae (raccoon, coatis and cacomistle).
mongabay.org /conservation/Cacomistle.htm   (1700 words)

  
 Petite Paws Exotics - The Ringtail Cat Page
The Ringtail cat and the Cacomistle are often mistaken.
The Cacomistle is slightly larger than the Ringtail cat.
The beautiful and graceful Ringtail cat was once used in the early American West as a companion and mouser to the prospectors in their camps, thus the name, miners cat.
members.shaw.ca /petitepaws/ringtail.html   (1130 words)

  
 cacomistle — FactMonster.com
The face is marked with dark brown and white, but there is no mask like that of the raccoon.
Swift, agile, and able climbers, cacomistles prefer regions with trees, but they live in a variety of habitats.
Cacomistles feed primarily on small animals but also eat some vegetable matter.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/sci/A0809749.html   (235 words)

  
 The Cacomistle : Utah's Hogle Zoo
The cacomistle is nocturnal and omnivorous and is a great leaper and climber, thanks to its semi-retractile claws and long tail for balancing.
The cacomistle often inhabits deserted dwellings and Indian ruins.
The name cacomistle comes from an Aztec word meaning "nimble thief." Also called a "miner's cat" because they were sometimes used to exterminate rodents from gold and silver mines.
www.hoglezoo.org /animals/view.php?id=91   (220 words)

  
 Cacomistle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cacomistle (Bassaricus sumichrasti) is a nocturnal arboreal omnivore.
Its preferred habitat are wet, tropical evergreen woodlands and mountain forests, though seasonally it will inhabit drier deciduous forests.
The term cacomistle is from the Nahuatl language (tlacomiztli) and means "half cat" or "half lion"
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bassariscus_sumichrasti   (127 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for cacomistle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
cacomistle CACOMISTLE [cacomistle], small New World mammal, genus Bassaricus, related to the raccoon.
The North American cacomistle, B. astutus, also known as ringtail, ring-tailed cat, and coon cat, ranges
coon cat COON CAT [coon cat] name for a breed of large domestic cats (also called Maine cats), for the coatimundi, and for the cacomistle.
www.encyclopedia.com /printablenew/28735.html   (137 words)

  
 Cacomistle (Bassariscus astutus)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A relative of the raccoon, the Cacomistle is a slender animal.
It reaches up to 30 inches in length (76 cm), of which 17 inches (43 cm) consists of a bushy tail ringed in fl and white.
The Cacomistle is a shy, nocturnal animal that sleeps by day in a den amidst rocks, and rises at night to feed on small rodents, birds, lizards, and insects.
www.animalweb.com /animalworld/showanimal.asp?iid=467   (123 words)

  
 The Wildlife Art of Carel Pieter Brest van Kempen - Stolen Paintings - Northern Cacomistle
One of two members of a genus of long-tailed, agile carnivores, the northern cacomistle (Bassariscus astutus) is distributed in the western United States and Mexico.
Like it's relative the raccoon, its range has expanded during the twentieth century, and now stretches as far east as Ohio and Alabama.
In Utah I associate the cacomistle with the sandstone desert of the Colorado Plateau.
www.cpbrestvankempen.com /stolen4.html   (149 words)

  
 Old Timers
was a daughter of Cacomistle Rocky Raccoon of Calicoon x Belwitch's Buffy of Calicoon - a brown mack torbie and white.
She is shown with her father Cacomistle Rocky Raccoon.
Born in 1974 - mother of Cacomistle Rocky Raccoon of Calicoon.
www.calitan.net /oldtimers.html   (189 words)

  
 Cacomistle - MSN Encarta
Cacomistle, small nocturnal mammal common to wooded and rocky areas from Oregon to Mexico.
The cacomistle, also called bassarisk, weighs between 0.82...
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 Cacomistle, Costa Rican Fauna
The cacomistle of Costa Rica is similar to the ring-tailed cat of North America, having a very bushy white tail with fl rings and white spectacles around the eyes.
Similar to the white-nosed coati and the olingo, the cacomistle (cacomistle or olingo; Bassariscus sumichrasti; locals don't necessarily differentiate among them.
The cacomistle is similar to the ring-tailed cat of North America, having a very bushy white tail with fl rings and white spectacles around the eyes.
www.1-costaricalink.com /costa_rica_information/cacomistle.htm   (172 words)

  
 Family Procyonidae or cacomistle, coatis, raccoons, and relatives
Family Procyonidae or cacomistle, coatis, raccoons, and relatives
Facts about the family Procyonidae, the cacomistle, coatis, raccoons, and relatives
Procyonidae is a family of Carnivora which includes the raccoons, coatis, Red Panda, and others.
www.thewebsiteofeverything.com /animals/mammals/Carnivora/Procyonidae   (198 words)

  
 Calicoon Introduction
She had a full brother to Rufus, Yankee Cats Von Richtofen of Tanstaafl and he had a litter of kittens due.
There were also several other breeders in Memphis at the time, so in the spring of 1975, I obtained a daughter of Von Richtofen's (Belwitch's Buffy of Calicoon) and a male from Lea Schmidt (Cacomistle Rocky Raccoon of Calicoon) who were the foundation of my breeding program.
My first litter was born in June of 1976.
www.calitan.net /introcal.html   (736 words)

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