Zoo staff make a fuss over fossa

A Cornish zoo is celebrating after an endangered male fossa cub was born there for the first time.

The tiny cub, Geoff, was born at Newquay Zoo six weeks ago and has just been microchipped and sexed.

There are only about 100 fossas in zoos worldwide and only six zoos in the UK have them.



They look like cats but are actually part of the mongoose family. He was named after a retired member of staff who recently died, Geoff Gerry.

Classified as endangered, the fossa grows to about the size of a Jack Russell terrier.

There are fewer than 2,500 left in the wild in forest areas of Madagascar, where they feed on a wide variety of small mammals, birds and reptiles.

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