Also known as ring-tailed cat, Bassariscus astutus, cacomistle
The ringtail (Bassariscus astutus) is a mammal of the raccoon family native to arid regions of North America. It is widely distributed and well-adapted to its distributed areas. It has been legally trapped for its fur. Globally, it is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List but is a Conservation Strategy Species in Oregon and Fully Protected in California The ringtail is the state mammal of Arizona.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).