Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.
The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are still on the track, and have been since 1992. But as if chasing unknown animals wasn't enough, we are involved in education, conservation, and good old-fashioned natural history! We already have three journals, the largest cryptozoological publishing house in the world, CFZtv, and the largest cryptozoological conference in the English-speaking world, but in January 2009 someone suggested that we started a daily online magazine! The CFZ bloggo is a collaborative effort by a coalition of members, friends, and supporters of the CFZ, and covers all the subjects with which we deal, with a smattering of music, high strangeness and surreal humour to make up the mix.
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I agree it looks more lemur-shaped than cat-shaped. It's a pity we don't get to see it moving or how it holds its tail.
Towards the end of the shot, when the thing points its head towards the camera you can see a glint of eyes on each side of the head, which rules out a lemur as their eyes are much more forward-pointing.
Melanistic squirrel?
It's a melanistic Eastern grey squirrel. On my boyhood farm, we had tons of them-- and still do.
They are uncommon in the South, though. In some parts of Canada, they make up the majority population of Eastern Gray Squirrels. It's very unusual for one to appear in Florida.
Lewis and Clark, who traveled down the Ohio on their way to the Missouri, saw hundreds of melanistic and normal gray squirrels crossing the Ohio. They had a large Newfoundland dog on board with them named "Seaman." Seaman had been trained as a retriever, and he was sent after the squirrels. He retrieved a great many squirrels, which were taken for the pot.
As soon as I saw the animal I thought "squirrel".
Definitely a squirrel; the ears are the giveaway, without even needing to start up the clip.
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