IUCN threat status:

Least Concern (LC)

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Cat-sized, sharp-snouted carnivore like a large, shaggy weasel. Elongated body and short legged. Above, uniform griz­zled gray, grizzled appearance coming from the long guard hairs banded alternately dark and pale. Below paler. Legs short, often barely visible beneath fur, colored as body with blackish feet. Muzzle sharp, blackish color. Rest of head as body, but hair shorter. Ears small, rounded and brownish. Tail long, grizzled gray, and with a long tuft of blackish hairs at the tip. Tail distinctively wedge-shaped with longest hairs at base getting shorter toward the tip.

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