Mysterious creature roaming the Bronx is...a type of weasel
聽A mysterious long-haired critter that's been sighted on the streets of a聽Bronx聽neighborhood for several months has a name.
It's a member of the weasel family called a聽fisher聽or聽fisher聽cat.
Zoologist Roland Kays of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences tells WCBS-TV (聽) that the short-legged, furry-tailed creature may have come down the river.
New Yorkers should be thrilled. Turns out the聽fisher聽preys on rats and squirrels, but is not a threat to humans.
Fishers聽were found in Manhattan when the island was first settled. The fur trade pushed them north and into the Adirondacks.
Fisher聽trapping was banned in the 1930s. Kays says today the聽fisher聽population is booming in the Northeast and a trapping season has been reinstated.
