Close but no cigar , i am however impressed to finad anyone who knows what a fosa is though. This particualiar critter has twice the ear length of a fosa and if you notice its tail coiled behind it that will give you an idea of how long it is, the tail is twice the lenght of that of its body. On a fosa you would find a tail equal in length to its body.


keep guessing..............


Also do you agree if this little guy where released and sited that people would start clalling it a devil creature of some sort?

Well i got the thing i will refer to as "evil little bastard" several months back from a friend of mine that insisted it was friendly. After my first encounter with it i determined my friend had obviously never heard the definition of the word friendly. However after it being in my care one night it escaped downstairs and when i came around the corner to see its cage door open i turned and there he was standing on his hind legs allmost as high as my waist. It scared the hell out of me but not because i thought it could hurt me but more the initial shock of seeing it when i went to turn around. Oddly enough the little guy followed me around the room wherever i went like he was a puppy so apparently my first encounter with him was very misleading.


Anyway ill give you another hint on what it is , the creature does in fact actually have black spots on its coat similiar to that of the first fosa pic you linked. However the creature is what is known as melanistic which is basically the reverse of albino, so you can only see its spots in the proper lighting. Also civet was real close, by the way dare i ask how you are familiar with the fosa?
Its a rather odd creature for anyone to even know of.

is it a melanistic ring tailed cat or coati?


well enough guesses for me maybe someone else knows.




[edit on 6/21/2004 by panchovilla]

It's a young Black Panther or Melantistic Leopard from India and Southeast Asia? Just a guess though.

Nope mountain its not that big...........

However i got to thinking last night when i was feeding it, when i was little i used to be scared to go in the basement by myself becuase i was sure some sort of monster lived down there. Now that im older the kids in my house can litterally say a devil creature lives in the basement. Odd thing is they arent scared of it nor any other animal ( even dangerous ones ) but they are scared as can be of the dark, go figure.