Small-toothed Ferret-badger

The Chinese ferret-badger, or small-toothed ferret-badger, is a mustelid distinguished from most other oriental mustelids by mask-like markings on the face. The average body is 33–43 cm long with a 15–23 cm tail. It is densely distributed from north-east India to central China and south to northern Indochina, in grassland, open forest and tropical rainforest (Wikipedia, general species account).

It copes well with human habitation, using firewood stacks and rock piles as resting places and farmland and vegetable gardens for feeding. It rarely preys on chickens or livestock and causes few conflicts with people. It rests by day in burrows, such as small rodents' dens, or in rock crevices, and feeds on fruit, insects, small animals and worms. A female gives birth to up to three young in May or June.