I am so perplexed! I hope someone on here can help... Last night while flipping channels, I saw a ferret-like animal out of the corner of my eye and went back... what I saw has me bewildered and confused and of course, the commentator never mentioned the animals name after I flipped it on! It was on PBS between 8-9 (Central time) and I think was a show on Africa. The mysterious animal? I swear I am not making this up! It looked like a large ferret, same shape, body type, facial features etc... except if was slightly bigger, about 3-4 feet long and about 8-10 pounds.... no, no, no, before anyone yells weasal.... It had long, thick, silky fur which was... okay it was black and silver with a little white and was patterned! it had a spots and stripes combination which resembled the markings of an ocelot or snow leopard or something. I would have sworn it was a big ferret except for this bizarre color pattern and the fact that it was obviously a native wild animal in the jungle area. Now I am not stupid about animals, we work with an exotic wildlife sanctuary, watch the animal nature shows religiously and are pretty darn animal smart... but this has me stumped. I even tried looking up weasal like critters for that continent and came up empty. I really would nlike to know what it was, it certianly was a fasinating animal. Does anyone out there have a clue?? [Posted in FML issue 2936]