Borneo mystery animal is a sodding squirrel.

[oldrover]

Came across this over on Cryptozoology.com. Darren Naish puts the boot of reason into this most plausible of mystery creatures.

The mystery mammal of Kayan Mentarang
By Darren Naish | February 25, 2013 | 22


Back in 2005, the discovery of a weird reddish, long-tailed mammal, photographed by a camera-trap at Kayan Mentarang in central Borneo, was announced by the Swiss World Wildlife Fund. I covered the case and how it unfolded back at Tet Zoo ver 1 during January 2007. That’s such a long time ago that now is probably a good time to recycle the whole story. So, here it is again, with updates as and where appropriate. The big deal about the Kayan Mentarang animal is that it was hailed as a possible new species.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tet ... mentarang/

 

[lordmongrove]

This was worked out shortly afterwards. I think Darren Naish covered it on his blog.