Mammals > Carnivorans
OverviewThe Flat-headed Cat (Prionailurus planiceps) is one of the world’s rarest, most specialized, and bizarre wild felids, belonging to the leopard cat lineage of the family Felidae. Native to the low-lying peat swamps and oxbow river corridors of Southeast...
Mammals > Carnivorans
OverviewThe Olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina) is a captivating, rust-orange arboreal carnivoran belonging to the raccoon family Procyonidae. First described to modern science in August 2013, the olinguito holds the historic distinction of being the first new living...
Mammals > Carnivorans
OverviewThe Least Weasel (Mustela nivalis) is the smallest member of the order Carnivora on Earth, reigning as a ferocious, hyperactive micro-predator across the northern continents. Despite weighing less than an apple, this tiny, fearless mustelid possesses an...
Mammals > Carnivorans
OverviewThe Sunda Clouded Leopard (Neofelis diardi) is a secretive, breathtaking wild felid endemic to the ancient, mist-draped tropical rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. Recognized as a distinct species from the mainland clouded leopard in 2006 through...
Mammals > Carnivorans
OverviewThe North American River Otter (Lontra canadensis) is an iconic, highly charismatic semiaquatic carnivoran belonging to the weasel family Mustelidae. Endemic to the waterways, lakes, and coastal estuaries of the North American continent, this playful and...
Mammals > Carnivorans
OverviewThe Malagasy Civet (Fossa fossana), locally known in Madagascar as the *fanaloka*, is an elusive, terrestrial carnivoran endemic to the pristine tropical rainforests of eastern Madagascar. Belonging to the family Eupleridae—an endemic radiation of carnivorans...
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OverviewThe European Mink (Mustela lutreola) is one of the most severely threatened mammal species on the planet, representing a distinct evolutionary lineage within the family Mustelidae that has inhabited the riparian corridors of Eurasia since the Pleistocene....
Mammals > Carnivorans
OverviewThe Culpeo (Lycalopex culpaeus), also celebrated across South America as the culpeo fox, Andean fox, or Patagonian wolf, is the second largest living wild canid on the South American continent, surpassed in size only by the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)....
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OverviewThe Asian Small-clawed Otter (Aonyx cinereus), also known as the oriental small-clawed otter, is the smallest, most vocal, and most dextrous otter species in the world. Native to the lush freshwater wetlands, peat swamps, and coastal river deltas of South and...
Mammals > Carnivorans
OverviewThe Raccoon Dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides), renowned in Japanese folklore and mythology as the mischievous shapeshifting ‘tanuki,’ is an archaic basal canid native to the temperate forests, river valleys, and coastal lowlands of East Asia. Despite...
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