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Viverrid and herpestid observations by camera and small mamal cage trapping in the lowland rainforests on Borneo including a record of Hose’s civet, Diplogale hosei.

Given that giant flying squirrels are awesome and deeply weird I’m no less impressed by the Kayan Mentarang animal than I was when I thought it likely to be an unusual new viverrid.

The image above, produced by Wahyu Gumelar for WWF Indonesia, was widely reproduced and clearly depicts the animal as a new, hitherto unknown viverrid.

Other authors also interpreted the animal as a viverrid, but as a member of a known species, not a new one.

Named in 1892 and known from less than 20 specimens, Hose’s civet is a poorly known, terrestrial, forest-dwelling viverrid.