Arizona has a raccoon relative that is rarely seen anywhere else in the U.S., and it’s out during the day. White-nosed coatis, also called coatimundis, live at Chiricahua National Monument in southeastern Arizona. The U.S. Department of the Interior highlighted them in a video on Sept. 29 showing a band crossing a park road. The National Park Service says coatimundis there are social animals seen throughout the monument during the day. Unlike their cousins the raccoon and the ringtail, they aren’t nocturnal. Females and their young travel and forage together in bands, while males are usually solitary and join the females during mating season. They eat insects, reptiles, bird eggs, carrion, fruit and nuts. In fall and winter, bands are often spotted at lower elevations, around Silver Spur Meadow and the Bonita Canyon Campground. Because bands often cross park roads, the Park Service asks drivers to slow down. Coatimundis are fairly new to the state’s record books. The earliest U.S. s...