r/animalid • u/iamayeshaerotica • Oct 06 '23

What is this?? šŸ¦¦ šŸ¦” MUSTELID: WEASEL/MARTEN/BADGER šŸ¦” šŸ¦¦

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u/pass_the_ham Oct 06 '23

Ringtail. Related to racoons.

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u/Specialist_Victory_5 Oct 07 '23

Is this the same as a minerā€™s cat?

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u/Melodic_Priority_272 Oct 07 '23

Yes. I didn't know such an animal existed. Saw one on my driveway and freaked.

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u/OpusJess Oct 07 '23

This exact thing happened to me in New Braunfels haha Iā€™d never heard of them and though a lemur escaped or something

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u/NovaAteBatman Oct 07 '23

These aren't ringtail lemurs, they're another animal called a ringtail that's related to racoons.

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u/Burnallthepages Oct 07 '23

Yeah, but you can see that if you didn't know ringtails existed and you just had a minute to look at the animal, lemur would probably be a first guess for many people.

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u/Banditsmisfits Oct 07 '23

Same thing happened to me! I ran inside to wake my husband up because it was 4am and I wanted to catch a lemur.

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u/NovaAteBatman Oct 07 '23

These are ringtails, not ringtail lemurs.

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u/Banditsmisfits Oct 07 '23

Oh I know that now, but I didnā€™t at the time. We were new to Texas and I hadnā€™t ever heard of them before. So when I was after a late shift at work I was sure it was a lemur, and that it must of escaped and the poor thing needed help, and at the very least we should go check on it. Thankfully my husband did a quick google search and figured it out. Lol

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u/enchanted_fishlegs Oct 07 '23

Good thing you didn't catch it. I knew a guy who saw one in his neighbor's barn when he was a kid. He didn't know what it was but it was adorable, so he tried to catch it to keep as a pet. It sprayed. He said the stench was pretty intense.

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u/meatdreidel69 Oct 07 '23

Itā€™s actually a type of lemur. Iā€™m a zoology student

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '23

A very friendly ringtail at that

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u/StatisticCyberosis Oct 07 '23

Itā€™s cool that heā€™s playing a synth.

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u/AsleepTemperature111 Oct 06 '23

Awesome ringtail sighting! Theyā€™re pretty shy.

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u/DaM00s13 Oct 07 '23

They arenā€™t at all shy. They are famously called miners cats because they would interact with miners around the camp fire and basically become pets.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '23

If there are any ringtails reading this, come into my house I will feed you and take care of you they're so cute

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u/DaM00s13 Oct 07 '23

Just camp near cliffs in the same spot for like a week and they will hop in your lap

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u/dadsrad40 Oct 07 '23

I had one that used to hang out in the deer stand with me while I was hunting. Iā€™d bring it snacks, like peanuts and granola and it would just chill on the floor next to me lol. Pooped everywhere tho, so that was a little off putting

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u/DaM00s13 Oct 07 '23

I had a group of them visit the wall next to our camp at havasupi. There were eating giant Dobson flies. Super fucking cool

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u/meatdreidel69 Oct 07 '23

Theyā€™re shy

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u/Lysergio Oct 07 '23

What's with that awful noise/music?

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u/lIllIllIllIllIllIII Oct 07 '23

Went back and unmuted and that is not what I expected. What the hell lol

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u/Garnet0908 Oct 07 '23

I unmuted it because of you guys and I canā€™t stop laughing. What in the Salad Fingers background music hell is this? šŸ˜‚

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u/SimonDanziger Oct 07 '23

Salad fingers, now that's a name I have not heard in a long time.

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u/Garnet0908 Oct 07 '23

I hadnā€™t thought about it in a long time until I heard this creepy music. And that was definitely on purpose.

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u/RaneeGA Oct 07 '23

Dammit.... now You made Me unmute it. dude šŸ˜†

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u/No_Year_5874 Oct 07 '23

šŸ¤£šŸ˜†šŸ¤£ Your so right! I was literally playing the Salad Fingers video for coworkers 5 days ago! They needed to know about the rusty spoons!

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u/Zestyclose_Foot_134 Oct 07 '23

Yeah I thought it was going to be some annoying TikTok song not Cinema of the Unsettling from the Office šŸ˜‚

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u/RenaissanceStruggle8 Oct 07 '23

This music is fucking stupid.

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u/Easy_Arm_1987 Oct 07 '23

The music is driving the Ringtail crazy, and looking for the exit to get the hell out of there ... LOL

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u/Ok_Afternoon_8779 Oct 07 '23

Itā€™s the worst

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u/cornishacid6 Oct 08 '23

i was hoping for track ID

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u/VIRUSIXI2 Oct 06 '23

Ringtail! Iā€™m guessing Arizona?

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u/Valkyriemome Oct 07 '23

That is so freaking adorable. Iā€™ve never heard of this animal.

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u/Pure_Kangaroo6215 Oct 07 '23

Have you watched with the audio unmuted?

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u/Valkyriemome Oct 07 '23

I have now. Disturbing.

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u/Low-Squirrel2439 Oct 06 '23

Cacomistle aka ringtail

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u/Curious_ByStander9 Oct 07 '23

So many animals in the world that I have no fucking clue about lmao

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u/ForeverCareful3021 Oct 07 '23

Very shy little ringtail, aka ā€œMinerā€™s Catā€. Theyā€™re good at ridding the neighborhood of rodents and insects, and the old time miners loved ā€˜em for those very reasons! In my 62 years of outdoorā€™s Arizona adventures, Iā€™ve only seen one in the wild. Great shots of a very camera shy little guy!

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u/jollyrobyn Oct 07 '23

Lived in zion for a while as a worker, one of my neighbors in the dorm had one get into his room one night and steal a whole loaf of bread and a package of graham crackers lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '23

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u/FinancedWaif7 Oct 07 '23

They are not shy. Little fuckers are adorable and mischievous. I came down from a climb in Vegas once to find that my friends had let a ringtail carry one of my shoes 50ft while they watched laughed and took pictures of it.

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u/DaM00s13 Oct 07 '23

No they arenā€™t. They are called miners cats because of how readily they would become pets and live in minerā€™s campsites eating mice.

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u/MegaPiglatin Oct 07 '23

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A ringtail!! I saw one once as a kid in the middle of the night in the desert faaar away from peopleā€”as others have already said, they are typically quite people-shy so this is a rare find indeed.

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u/HortonFLK šŸ¦ŠšŸ¦ WILDLIFE EXPERT šŸ¦šŸ¦Š Oct 07 '23

Iā€™ve only seen one of these in my life. Sadly dead on the side of the road.

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u/Hillcountryaplomb Oct 07 '23

Ring tailed cat! I saw one in downtown Austin years ago.

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u/AGR523 Oct 07 '23

Wtf is that audiošŸ˜‚

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u/RaneeGA Oct 07 '23

Creepy murder carnival music!

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u/enchanted_fishlegs Oct 08 '23

I was thinking one of those shows that used to come on Saturday afternoons. The ones where they would show cheesy 50's science fiction movies.

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u/luckydogtoo Oct 07 '23

I've lived in AZ for 60 yrs and I've only seen 2.

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u/jescowhitejr Oct 07 '23

Yep, ringtail. I recently saw two of these together in agora hills california, outside LA.

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u/Norwester77 Oct 07 '23

Ringtail cat (not actually a cat but a cousin of raccoons).

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u/BiologyAndMTBing Oct 07 '23

Excellent footage of a ringtail! Location?

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u/SparrowLikeBird Oct 07 '23

ringtail aka miners cat

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u/kitkatsacon Oct 07 '23

Hey op why am I listening to a deathbed orchestra? (What a cutie!)

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u/cwebbvail Oct 07 '23

Ringtail! They are so cool

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u/HolidayDocument7015 Oct 07 '23

What a great video! Ty OP!

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u/JuncoCanche Oct 07 '23

Cacomixtle

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u/GrossGrimalkin Oct 07 '23

Cacomistle! Or Ringtail. I think they're also called miner's cats (not cats)

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '23

Screw your taste in music

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u/Kit_Ashtrophe Oct 07 '23

What's with the creepy-ass music?

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u/jakehelsing Oct 07 '23

Looks like a coati

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u/rasamalai Oct 07 '23

No, different head shapes and faces! Not a coatĆ­.

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u/SANNASSSOSAS Oct 07 '23

Eheheh, looks like q puppy-fox-rat-racoon

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u/rasamalai Oct 07 '23 edited Oct 20 '23

In MĆ©xico itā€™s a cacomixtle, but you should add a location.

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u/ZeDumpsterFire Oct 07 '23

Ringtailed cat...super cool! I had one steal a bag of marshmallows on a camping trip in northern California....i was young and convinced id seen a ring tailed lemur until I did some research

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u/SharpPhilosopher3734 Oct 06 '23

coati

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u/NovaAteBatman Oct 07 '23

They look nothing alike. Though I'll give you a tiny bit of credit because if feels like the sub has been full of coatis recently.

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u/buyerbeware23 Oct 07 '23

Furry gotomundi

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u/Ashif8055 Oct 07 '23

This is a cat.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '23

Cacomixtle

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u/Bi_Gamer29 Oct 07 '23

Something

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '23

Thatā€™s me leave me a cracker and a cap of water pls ty

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u/Zice111 Oct 07 '23

Cute!!!

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u/Adventurous-Equal-29 Oct 07 '23

I don't know. I want one now.

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u/Manolyk Oct 07 '23

Thatā€™s Oy!

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '23

Yellow babber

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u/AppropriateAd9282 Oct 07 '23

A forbidden kitty

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u/Swineflushawty Oct 07 '23

Thatā€™s Roscoe

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u/-ImpulsiveFlower- Oct 07 '23

king julian lookalike

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u/Blacknoise3 Oct 07 '23

Yesssssss a mythical creature

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u/Afraid_Ad_8216 Oct 07 '23

I'm learning today these exist and I'm excited

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u/Calm_State1230 Oct 07 '23

whatā€™s with the scary music? this little guy looks like he came out of a cartoon heā€™s adorable

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u/SlackJawGrunt Oct 07 '23

Just a little guy

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u/Stormchaser2 Oct 07 '23

Cacomistle aka ringtail

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u/PunSlinger2022 Oct 07 '23

Somebody get that racoon a sandwich.

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u/phatcooch030 Oct 07 '23

wtf is this music? itā€™s a ringtail not some scary entity šŸ˜…

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u/frewegooh Oct 07 '23

Adorable

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u/Odd_Watch_8429 Oct 07 '23

Chihuacoon or Racuahua.

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u/humburritos Oct 07 '23

Itā€™s a wunk.

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u/BlasterMittens Oct 07 '23

Itā€™s the best kind of raccoon.

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u/Ebonyclaws214 Oct 07 '23

Not sure why there's horror ambiance, but that is an adorable looking creature!

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u/RWBYRain Oct 07 '23

its another coti! im loving how people are finding theses a;; over the usa suddenly. like before reddit i didnt even know they could exist in our part of the world now theyre all over like wild pokemon

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u/madhorse5 Oct 07 '23

Bassariscus astutus... their habitat spans from central mexico to central US... in Mexico we call them Cacomixtle or Cacomistle... fun little omnivores...

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u/Mack-Attack33 Oct 07 '23

We call them Ring-tailed Cats where Iā€™m from!

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u/FinvaraSidhe Oct 08 '23

Billybumbler. Might be Oy. šŸ˜

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u/Chainsawaddict Oct 08 '23

Ringtail, raccoon family

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u/jhnygtr Oct 08 '23

Iā€™m on mushrooms and do not appreciate that music

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u/squishykill Oct 08 '23

That my friend is a trans cat

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u/I-Needgold Oct 08 '23

A fussa šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚