 Coatis are omnivores; their diet consists mainly of ground litter, invertebrates, such as tarantula, and fruit (Alves-Costa et al., 2004, 2007; Hirsch 2007).They also eat small vertebrate prey, such as lizards, rodents, small birds, birds' eggs, and crocodile eggs.The snout, with an acute sense of smell, assists the paws in a hog-like manner to unearth invertebrates.