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No. 110 · Fossil record
Banana Cat
Felis musaphila
A cat dressed in a full-body banana costume, usually shown looking mildly unimpressed about it.
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- Habitat
- Facebook compilation posts, later TikTok’s crying-cat format
- First observed
- 2021
- Diet
- Not actual bananas, despite the costume
- Call
- A muffled meow through fabric
- Composition
- Cat, 1. Banana suit, 1, full body.
Conservation status
EXEWCRENVUNTLC
Least concern
Field notes
A Facebook compilation of cats in banana costumes went up in March 2021 and picked up tens of thousands of shares. A sadder variant, paired with a crying filter, followed in March 2023 and became its own separate joke.
At the printer
Print the suit as a removable shell. Half the appeal is that the cat clearly did not choose this.