This article was originally published on Critter Science.

It’s a cat, a dog, a mongoose…. what is that critter? It’s a fossa. Even it’s name isn’t pronounced how you’d think. It’s pronounced foo-sah. These interesting predators hail from Madagascar and are most closely related to civets. They stick to hunting in the rainforest region of this amazing island […]

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