It moves like a cat, climbs like a primate and spends much of its time high up in trees — meet the world’s strangest dog

From Discover wildlife

The grey fox’s anatomy is notable for features seemingly borrowed from across various mammalian orders. Like primates, it has rotating wrists that enable it to grip the sides of trees to climb branchless trunks. Its long, curved claws and large, spreadable paws resemble those of cats – again, useful for gaining traction on essentially vertical surfaces.

A huge, flattened tail, aiding balance during jumps, could have been stolen from a tree squirrel. It hauls itself up branches with short, powerful forearms that would not be out of place on a miniature badger. And all packaged in the otherwise standard form of a small, large-eared, big-eyed desert fox typical of both Old and New World arid lands.