Its name means “honey bear,” but it’s not a bear. It’s a carnivore, though it mostly eats fruit. It has a prehensile tail, but it’s not a primate. The kinkajou is awash in contradictions. But what is ...

A small raccoon-like mammal known as a "kinkajou" was rescued earlier this week after being found climbing a dusty Washington road pole. The nocturnal critters are indigenous to the rainforest and ...

MIAMI, Fl. -- A 99-year-old Florida woman got quite the surprise in the middle of the night when she awoke to find an exotic animal on her chest. The woman said she opened her eyes and saw the animal ...

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Why did the kinkajou cross the road? And what’s a kinkajou, anyway? One of the mammals — which look like a cross between a monkey and a tiny bear — was found far from its normal ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — A kinkajou was found in southeast of Yakima, Washington earlier this week, according to officials. “We don’t know if it was dropped off or escaped.” Hello from our friendly Kinkajou!

A kinkajou – a tree-dwelling mammal with a prehensile tail – scurried into a Florida apartment and attacked a man who had opened the front door to leave for work, according to officials. The kinkajou ...

TACOMA, Wash. — A kinkajou discovered abandoned at a rest stop in central Washington is now being cared for at Tacoma's Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium. The young kinkajou, a nocturnal rainforest mammal ...

LAKE WORTH BEACH (CBSMiami) -- A bizarre incident in Lake Worth Beach, involving a four-legged intruder with a long tail, which bit a man after opening the front door to head to work. WPEC reports the ...

MIAMI, FL. -- A 99-year-old Florida woman got quite the surprise in the middle of the night when she awoke to find an exotic animal on her chest. The woman said she opened her eyes and saw the animal ...