Crossword-Solution: COATIS 6 letters, 22 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The older children brought with them the household pets; some had monkeys or coatis on their shoulders, and others bore tortoises on their heads.

The animal by whose tracks Humboldt was misled, was, no doubt, one of the smaller plantigrade animals (_coatis_ or _grisons_), of which there are several species in the forests of South America.

The higher C_{mw}'s of these coatis serve as an adaptation that contributes to the success of their diurnal life style as well as their ability to expand their habitat use to areas with less thermal stability, such as oak and pine woodlands and deserts.

Both coatis are diurnal and forage primarily on the ground (Kaufmann, 1962:185-188, 1987; Poglayen-Neuwall, 1975; Nowak and Paradiso, 1983:982), consequently they are exposed to a more severe thermal environment while active (higher T_{a}'s and solar radiation) than are nocturnal procyonids.

The greater heat tolerance of these coatis is compatible with their diurnal habits and widespread distribution in a variety of forest habitats in both tropical and subtropical areas of the western hemisphere.