Fossa - native to Madagascar
cat and a fox - sounds like the makings for a Batman movie - foxy Catwoman does the dirty deed with the winged rodent and thus is born Batty Babycatfox - flys around all night eating bugs and trying to score some catknip but looks like a million bucks.
It's probably just a rat they want to put on the ESA list of give us some grant money to protect it.
200,000 different living creatures on Mad. 150,000 of them aren't found anywhere else.