The Kinkajou in the Cage
This poor creature. It gets all the fruits it wants but it gets woken up by its keepers at feeding time so that people like me can gawk at it through a lens a mile long through a chain link cage.
I didn’t really know much about the kinkajou before the talk at the Long Island Game Farm. Turns out this endangered species is omnivorous and native to Central & South America. This fellow has apparently escaped his cage at night, and turned up on a neighbor’s porch, eating happily from her fruit tree.
People sometimes keep them as pets, which I didn’t know was legal here in the US. Apparently toilet or litter training them is not likely to happen. Ooh, boy.
The Kinkajou in the Cage
18 September 2007
Long Island Game Farm, Manorville, NY
[...] the camera is not upside down (neither is the photo). This ferocious beast is hanging upside down on the top of her chain link cage by the claws on her [...]
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