The quatì appears to be of a mongrel breed, for its snout is like that
of a barrow-pig, its head like that of a fox, while the rest of its body
resembles a middle-sized ape, with a yellow skin, and a tail longer than
all the rest of its body, divided into little rings of various colours.
Like apes, these animals leap up and down the boughs of trees, on the
fruit of which they subsist, though you sometimes meet a numerous herd
of them jumping about upon the ground. Even when full grown, they are
completely tamed by the Indians, within a few days, but are always
destructive to hens, and their eggs, which they delight in.