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==Sorenson: "There is an animal which they call ''chic'', wonderfully active, as large as a small dog, with a snout like a sucking pig. The Indian women raise them"==
John L. Sorenson:
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A good example of the confusion is with the coatimundi (''Nasua narica''). Landa, the padre who favored us with a detailed description of Yucatan, wrote of the beast, "There is an animal which they call ''chic'', wonderfully active, as large as a small dog, with a snout like a sucking pig. The Indian women raise them, and they leave nothing which they do not root over and turn upside down"...Another name, from the Aztecs, is ''pisote'' (Nahuatl ''pezotli''), which means basically glutton. Yet ''pisote'' is sometimes applied also to the peccary or wild pig. In regard to the peccary, the Nahuatl terms ''quauhcoyametl'' and ''quahpizotl'' were developed after the conquest to distinguish the native species from the introduced Castilian pig, so by extension, the coati was sometimes termed ''quauhpezotli'', tree-glutton, to distinguish it from the peccary, the ground-glutton.<ref>{{Aas|start=290}}</ref>
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