Fossa Fella
Tuesday 23 March 2010
You probably haven't heard of the Fossa before - but what a charming fella he is. A native of Madagascar the closest relative in the animal kingdom that his guy has is the mongoose. As such the Fossa is the largest mammalian carnivore on the island of Madagascar (unless you count us of course). There are only about two and a half thousand of these animals left in the wild, with numbers declining as their habitat becomes disconnetced and patchy due to the growth of the human population.
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