Corsica is not a very large place so I assume they just weren’t looking.

countdown to furries ruining this...

... That's a house cat.

Slightly misleading. The video seems to imply that this is a newly discovered species of cat. The Corsican Wildcat has been known about for centuries, but was thought to be a subspecies of African Wildcat introduced during the Roman era.

The big news is that recent DNA analysis indicates that they are a distinct species of wildcat that may have been introduced in the 6th millennium B.C., possibly from the Middle East.

It's like 15% longer than an average house cat and 20% shorter than an average Maine Coon cat (that which overlaps the size range for Red Foxes.)

Foxes are catty-looking for a caniform, from the other direction. This cat does not have long legs or any proportions and features skewing very fox-like. They are really laying this on thick, almost about to have tried a foreshortening trick if they didn't include other photos.

"[the cat has] 'very wide' ears, short whiskers and 'highly developed' canine teeth [...] 'very dark' hind legs and a russet stomach.

"It's their size and their tail that earned them the name 'cat-fox' across the island,' says Benedetti."


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