In Praise of Binturongs
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Not my area of expertise, but they sure are cute.
It's a viverrid, the branch of the cat family (OK, wikipedia has feliforms as a "suborder") that evolved into cat-weasels.
Weasels themselves are mustelids, caniforms rather than feliforms. Convergent evolution has produced a weasel body type across multiple taxa of carnivores.
(If that's your thing, you might enjoy how the Tasmanian tiger is a marsupial that is, from the head, clearly though incorrectly identifiable as a dog.)
Though if you look at the words, "viverrids" means [descendants of] ferrets and "mustelids" means [descendants of] weasels, whereas ferrets themselves are taxonomically mustelids, not viverrids. So the viverrids are incorrectly named.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Binturon...