"when it clicks, it becomes huge"

May 24, 2007 8:41 PM

Please help identify this animal!

It's mostly out of curiousity, but a friend showed me these pictures (one, two, three), and we have no idea what it is.

posted by lisawin to Pets & Animals (8 answers total)

It's a genet.
posted by iconomy at 8:46 PM on May 24, 2007

My vote is for Civet Cat.
posted by Secretariat at 8:49 PM on May 24, 2007

My first instinct was 'a photoshop', but googling "nekocat photoshop" lead me to here, which suggests that it's a Spotted Genet.
posted by zamboni at 8:49 PM on May 24, 2007

It seems that this was asked and answered before, with the same photo.
posted by iconomy at 8:55 PM on May 24, 2007

Don't eat it.
posted by Pollomacho at 5:45 AM on May 25, 2007

But you can certainly drink it!
posted by elendil71 at 8:35 AM on May 25, 2007

marsupalami?
posted by subtle_squid at 10:33 AM on May 25, 2007

I would guess it’s actually a spotted linsang. It would explain why the original Chinese zoo didn’t know what it was, (very rare) and how it happened to show up in China. (lives in Asia) BTW Pollomacho, people eat them. Lots of people eating lots of cute dead Viverridae. Yikes on many levels.
posted by BostonJake at 9:56 PM on May 25, 2007