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    Mammals: Procyon Lotor (Linnaeus, 1758) (Raccoon, Raccoon.)

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    Mammals are characterized by mothers feeding their young through breastfeeding. This allows babies to acquire species-specific knowledge from their mothers after birth as many mammals are born immature. The document then provides information on the habitat, reproduction, diet, behavior, and distribution of several Costa Rican mammal species, including the raccoon, squirrel, danta tapir, armadillo buzzard, and rabbit.

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    Mammals: Procyon Lotor (Linnaeus, 1758) (Raccoon, Raccoon.)

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    Mammals are characterized by mothers feeding their young through breastfeeding. This allows babies to acquire species-specific knowledge from their mothers after birth as many mammals are born immature. The document then provides information on the habitat, reproduction, diet, behavior, and distribution of several Costa Rican mammal species, including the raccoon, squirrel, danta tapir, armadillo buzzard, and rabbit.

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    Mammals: Procyon Lotor (Linnaeus, 1758) (Raccoon, Raccoon.)

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    Mammals

    Mammals are a class of vertebrates that are characterized primarily by mothers


    feed their babies through the breast. This feature is its name them.

    This is because when dealing with complex animals, need to be longer depending
    on the mother after birth, to acquire knowledge specific to that species.

    That is born immature.

    Procyon lotor (Linnaeus, 1758)

    (Raccoon, raccoon.)
    Habitat: Are associated with water bodies, rivers, streams, wetlands, mangroves,
    dry forests, cloud forests and gallery forests.

    Reproduction: Have litters of 2 to 5 pups.

    Food: They are omnivorous and feed on frogs, toads, crabs, shrimp, turtle eggs,
    fruits, seeds.

    Behavior: They are nocturnal and solitary. During the day sheltering in holes in
    tree trunks, under rocks, in holes.

    Distribution in Costa Rica: Habitats available throughout the country, from sea
    level to 1,500 m, approximately.
    Sciurus deppei Peters, 1863

    (Squirrel, chiza)

    Habitat: They live in dry forests and rainforests.

    Behavior: Are diurnal and very arboreal.

    State of conservation: STATE: In Costa Rica, this species is considered


    threatened with extinction due to loss of habitat due to deforestation. Is protected
    and regulated by the Law of Conservation of Wildlife No. 7317, the Organic
    Environmental Law No. 7554 and Decree No. 26435-MINAE.

    Distribution in Costa Rica: Available habitats in the north and mountains of the
    Cordillera de Guanacaste and Tilarán.

    Tapirus bairdii (Gill, 1865)

    (Danta, male from Mt.)

    Habitat: They live in rainforests, dry forests, old secondary forests and bamboo
    thickets.

    Reproduction: Have a baby, they spend more than a year with her mother,
    reaching about 2 / 3 the size of it.

    Food: They feed on foliage and seeds of a great variety of plants

    Behavior: May be active at night or day.

    They are solitary, but sometimes seen in pairs, but do not tend to form groups.
    Cabassous centralis (Miller, 1899)

    (Armadillo buzzard)

    Habitat: It lives in dry forests, rain forests.

    Food: Their diet includes lots of insects (grubs, beetles, ants), lizards and other
    small animals.

    Behavior: They are nocturnal, solitary and have fosoliares habits (digging holes)
    and are known as "vulture Armadillo" for its unpleasant smell. When attacked by
    rolling your body protects itself in the form of a ball, being discovered only its shell.

    State of conservation: STATE: In Costa Rica, this species is considered


    threatened because it is a rare, poorly understood.

    Distribution in Costa Rica: Is a rare species, which according to few reports, it is


    estimated that distributes Through the Caribbean and Pacific slopes, from sea level
    to 1,80

    Sylvilagus dicei Harris, 1932

    (Rabbit.)

    Habitat: They live in rainforests, deserts, grasslands possibly.

    Reproduction: It is likely that calves are born throughout the year.

    Food: They feed on vegetable matter

    Distribution in Costa Rica: Highlands of the Cordillera de Talamanca, from


    1.100m to the 3.500msnm.
    Armadillo buzzard squirrel

    Rabbit Danta

    Raccoon

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