{"id":12080,"date":"2007-11-24T10:42:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T17:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/11\/24\/foosa-aaaahhhh.html"},"modified":"2014-10-23T08:43:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T14:43:10","slug":"foosa_aaaahhhh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/24\/foosa_aaaahhhh.html","title":{"rendered":"“Foosa aaaahhhh!”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Having watched Madagascar<\/a><\/em> again last night (great movie), I did some quick research on the “foosa,” since it was a critter I was not familiar with by that name.\u00a0 Turns out it really is a critter known by that name<\/a> (actually spelled “fossa”), the largest mammalian carnivore on the island (the largest carnivore is a croc), related to the mongoose, and\u00a0is very cat-like in appearance and behavior (less dog-like than in the movie).<\/p>\n

The Fossa is a carnivore. It is a ferocious hunter that eats small to medium sized animals, from fish to birds, but is particularly adept at hunting lemurs<\/strong>, and is the predominant predator for many species, with only Madagascar’s large snakes having any other significant predatory impact. Malagasy folklore often exaggerates the ferocity of the Fossa, claiming that it will prey upon cattle, or even humans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Emphasis mine.)<\/p>\n

And now you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having watched Madagascar again last night (great movie), I did some quick research on the “foosa,” since it was a critter I was not familiar with by that name. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-cartoons","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/foosa1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17133,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/16\/unblogged-bits-for-fri-16-apr-2010-201am.html","url_meta":{"origin":12080,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits for Fri, 16 Apr 2010, 2:01AM","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Apr-10 12:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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