Fossa

= Fossa = (fos-uh)


 * ==Genus:==

|| ===Cryptoprocta=== ||
 * ==Family:==

|| ===Eupleridae=== ||
 * ==Order:==

|| ===Carnivora=== ||
 * ==Phylum:==

|| ===Chordatat=== ||
 * ==Kingdom:==

|| ===Animalia=== ||

|| ===C. Fox=== ||

__** Ecology **__

==In Madagascar, the fossa is one of the biggest predator and carnivore living in it. It does not have a natural predator and enemy but will get eaten by the crocodile and be hunted by human beings. It eats a lot of other organism, but one of its usual meal, would be the lemurs. It is a rare animal to find, for it is very mobile on both ground and trees. Its home is in mostly rain forests in madagascar.==

__** Physiology **__

=This cat looking like mammal is actually a part of the mongoose family.The fossa has an extraordinary long tail to keeps its good balance on the tree. The tail can get almost as long as its body. For the body, it can grow up to 31 inches. It is not a heavy animal,for it only weighs up to 22 pounds.It does not have a long neck, but it is really thick. The legs are short. It has strong paws and claws for climbing the tree and grabbing its prey. An ironic thing is that it walks flat footed, and it can still move really quickly on ground and tree. During the day or night, the fossa can hunt any time it wants too.To kill its prey, it uses its strong paws to catch it, then it would bite the prey with its sharp teeth. It has thirty-two sharp teeth ready to kill. Whenever it gets scares, it would release a nasty smell.=

During the fall, the fossa would reproduce. The fall season is their breeding season. There way of picking their partner is quite the same
==as many other animals. The female would go up to a branch on the tree, then numbers of males would come underneath her and call out to her and fight with each other. During the mating, it can get really noisy. They would mew and growl during the process. They would be able to reproduce at the age of 4 and up. They are a part of the k-strategy. For a one time breeding, there would be two to four baby fossa born. That baby fossa would need a lot of help from its mother, because they can’t see until 3 weeks and are born without teeth. They won’t go on to live by themselves until they are around two years of age.==

==Fossa is really hard to find. They are found in mostly Madagascar. Even though they are the top predator, humans tend to kill them. Their place call home is getting overtaken by humans. Us people today is also destroying their environment for ourselves. Also new species come and compete with the fossa, making it harder for the fossa to have enough food. Their habitat is getting smaller and smaller. For that, there is not enough space as if it was when they first arrive and their population is probably getting smaller and smaller too.==

__** Citation **__