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“These are coatis,” Mrs. Brisbane said, reading from the letter.

The state estimates property damage from such wrecks at nearly $20 million annually, while unbroken roads also fracture habitats for monitored species of concern including the ornate box turtle, white-nosed coati and gila monster.

“We’ve seen a lot of dead deer, dead tapirs, dead monkeys, dead coati,” a cousin of North American raccoons.

Authorities say the woman’s husband shot and killed the coati.

The annual weigh-in of animals, also including Asiatic lions, South African porcupines and South American coatis, will take a week to complete.