• The fossa kills prey by holding it with its front paws and biting the back of the head, and sometimes kills more animals than it can eat. It often attacks lemurs, chasing them through trees.

The fossa eats meat from other animals, including lemurs, birds, reptiles, and small mammals, both on the ground and in trees; it hunts using ambush tactics and active hunting strategies. The species’ diet consists of propithecus, common brown lemurs, hapalemurs, mouse lemurs, Lepilemuridae, rats, large mammals, and reptiles. It obtains food through ambush predation. The daily food requirement ranges from 200 grams to 400 grams. Young fossas feed on milk.