Fossas

The **Fossas** are the main antagonists of the 2005 Dreamworks Animation film Madagascar. They are medium-sized cat-like creatures that served as the enemies of the Lemurs given the fact that they wanted to eat them.

They were all voiced by Tom McGrath and Eric Darnell (the film directors).

## Madagascar

When Marty, Melman and Gloria arrive at the lemurs' party, the fossas attack the lemurs and attempt to eat Mort. When Alex came by, he asked the fossas for a supervisor in order to get back to New York. However, a spider from the spiderwebs that Alex got over appears on his back, causing him to scream in fear. The fossas, thinking that Alex is roaring at them, flee in terror. As Alex's screaming cause the fossas to run away. King Julien and his kingdom thank them for that happening.

The next morning, during the lemurs' party with Alex and his friends, the fossas return to eat the lemurs but thanks to Alex's roar, the foosas flee once again. The foosas then appear again during the "What a Wonderful World" scene, where they watch Alex walking into their territory after his predatory instincts forced to attack and almost hurt his friends.

Marty later heads off to the foosas' territory to convince Alex that the ship arrived since they can go back to New York and during that, the fossas plan to eat Marty as their meal and they chase him as well. The foosas almost ate Marty until Melman and Gloria arrive to save him but despite that, the foosas chases them and decided to eat the three of them as their meals until they're stopped by the penguins. A battle between the Central Park Zoo animals and the foosas then happen which is before Alex arrive and breaks up the fight pretending to want to eat Marty. As Alex came close to Marty, he secretly tells his plan and thanks him for not giving up on him. Alex then once again pretends to want to eat his friends as well scare the fossa away. Alex clobbers the fossas and scares them away once again as well as also telling them that he never wants to see them ever again. After that, the fossas return back to their territory, never bothering the lemurs, Alex and his friends anymore.

## Personality

Like their real-life counterparts, the fossas love to hunt animals for food since they want to eat the lemurs in the movie. They're also proved to be villainous was due to the fact that they are obsessed with eating the lemurs rather trying to eat other preys available for them which would cause the lemurs to go extinct.

They're also shown to be cowards since when Alex roars at them, the fossas just runs away and does not think about attacking him.

## Trivia

* Unlike their appearance in the film, fossas hunt alone instead of hunting in packs. The real-life fossas are also a lot smaller (about the size of a tiny dog) and would not been able to tackle down larger animals as a zebra like they did with Marty during the final battle in the first film.
* They are misspelled as "**Foosa**" in the first film, Netflix original All Hail King Julien and Madagascar: The Video Game.
* In the video game, they never had any speaking lines and are portrayed as more territorial and formidable than their movie counterparts.
* They apparently have their own leader called King Foosa in the video game, who does not appear nor get mentioned in the movie at all. He serves as the main antagonist and final boss as well as a playable character in the shuffleboard minigame. He also serves as a minor character in All Hail King Julien.