Sumatran hog badger

The Sumatran hog badger, Arctonyx hoevenii, is a mustelid endemic to the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. It was long treated as a subspecies of the greater hog badger until a 2008 study proposed splitting that species into three, a change the American Society of Mammalogists later followed. It is the smallest of the three hog badgers, about the size of a large housecat, with sparser fur for heat management and a much darker coat for camouflage in the jungle than the others. It has the hog-like snout that gives the group its name, and long, fairly sharp claws that curve downward like those of a sun bear and suit digging and foraging. It is endemic to the high-altitude regions of Sumatra, mainly the Barisan Range, and its core habitat is montane and cloud forest and tropical subalpine meadow between 200 and 2,600 metres above sea level, where it is common.