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- Fossa (animal)
Cat-like, carnivorous mammal native to Madagascar
A relative of the mongoose, the fossa is unique to the forests of Madagascar, an African island in the Indian Ocean. Growing up to 6 feet long from nose to tail tip, and weighing up to 26 pounds, the fossa is a slender-bodied catlike creature with little resemblance to its mongoose cousins. nationalgeographic.com
- Mammal
- Carnivore
- 15 years
- Vulnerable
- Head and body: 23.5 to 30 in (60 to 76 cm); tail: 22 to 28 in (56 to 71 cm)
- 15.5 to 26.5 lbs (7 to 12 kg)
- Until recently, scientists had mistaken the puma-like fossa for a primitive kind of cat.
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