While Bill was playing bridge, Rose Lynn went with three others to the Boyce Thompson Aboretum*, east of Apache Junction. It was a lovely afternoon, in a lovely place, with lovely company.
The highlight of the day, however, was meeting some coati feeding on the fruit of date palms along the trail. The park interpreters said it was a group of about 30 - three moms and their kittens which are estimated to be about 4-6 weeks old. They fed on the ground nosing up insects and nimbly climbed the trees for the fruit.
Boyd Lake
The coati is an agile, fruit-loving, meat-eating insectivore—an opportunistic omnivore—that is as at home in the trees as it is snuffling along the forest floor. Weighing as much as a large housecat, these mostly diurnal mammals are native to Central and South America, and parts of the southwestern US. Visually, the coati resembles a cross between a dog, a monkey, and a raccoon. It is related to the racoon.
P.S. Bill won a few quarters at bridge!
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