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The Kinkajou diet consists of mostly tropical fruits like bananas, mango, and pineapple, they also eat small insects, and the occasional bird and egg. The Kinkajou enjoy flower nectar and sometimes will even eat the whole flower. Because of the Kinkajou's love of nectar, they are very effective pollinators, transferring the pollen from flower to flower. The Kinkajou will also raid a bee hive for the honey, (hence the nicknames: sugar bear and honey bear). The Kinkajou is extremely nocturnal, and sleeps all day. They are most active in the evenings and right before dawn. They also do not like sudden movements, and if startled, they may instinctively react with a deep bite. The Kinkajou are basically loners when looking for food, although they have been seen in groups from time to time, but they sleep in small family units, probably for greater protection from preditors. The Kinkajou can be rather playful and docile when it feels secure in it's environment. The Kinkajou communicate through a variety of vocalizations like low chirps, yelps, whistles, and even loud shrill shrieks when treatened, startled, or protecting food.

A Spanish nickname for the Kinkajou is La Llorona, because of the shrill vocalization a Kinkajou can make, which resembles a screaming woman.

La Llorona is the Mexican ghost story of a woman who drowned her children, and spends the afterlife loudy weeping while searching for them.

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