Rick Schwartz of San Diego Zoo brings endangered animals from around the world, including an African penguin, Chinese alligator, kinkajou and Western African crown crane, to Studio 1A.Dec. 8, 2011 ...

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 ...

The photo above is an example of a kinkajou. Not to get all Buzzfeed on you, but it is clearly adorable. Let’s be honest, we’d all probably scroll through a post titled “19 Pictures of Kinkajous So ...

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 ...

Imagine for a moment you're asleep in your bed when you slowly come to the realization that something is in the bed with you. You awake to see an odd animal sleeping on your chest, one that looks like ...

Kinkajous are many things — nocturnal, carnivorous and a close relative of the raccoon. One thing they are not, however, are local to Yakima. But one notion-defying kinkajou temporarily underwent ...

The baby-sized brown fuzzball sedated on a vet table looks sweet and harmless. But then you notice his sharp, well-used claws and teeth. Meet Baxter, a 7-year-old kinkajou at Carolina Tiger Rescue in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Why did the kinkajou ...

Despite a recent effort to change the rules, it’s still illegal to own a kinkajou as a pet in Colorado. Last week, the state Parks and Wildlife Commission denied a petition from a man named Jared ...