FOSSA the African Mangoose Cousin - 5-Minute Encyclopedia

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. It is a member of the Eupleridae, a family of carnivorans closely related to the mongoose family Herpestidae.

Nowadays, Fossas are occasionally held in captivity in zoos. The fossa was briefly depicted as an antagonist in the DreamWorks 2005 animated film Madagascar, being referred to as the "foosa," and accurately shown as the lemurs' most feared predator.

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