Today's Olympic Google Doodle: What Animal Is That?

Today’s Google Doodle is a cute little cartoon about a blue animal awaking in a cave, falling down a hill that’s also a luge/bobsled course, and at the bottom he receives a score and a medal.

What kind of animal is that?

Screenshot? Today’s doodle for me is related to Valentine’s Day. I didn’t see yesterday’s.

Sorry. Here:

I see now they refer to it as a “Raccoon Dog” in the description, but I’d like to see what other people think it is, regardless of that.

Wait, that’s supposed to be a tanuki?

Needs moar testicles.

My first reaction is an owl/beaver hybrid.

너구리

A beaver tail and a fox face.

Badger ? (face markings)

badger

Raccoon.

I also thought badger.

Badger.

I haven’t read the other posts yet, but it looks quite beavery to me.
mmm

My thought was the red panda (aka firefox). I thought it looked raccoon like, but the body wasn’t right. And that’s what a red panda looks like.

Though, given that it’s not red, a tanuki makes more sense. Raccoon face, different body.

Wikipedia article for the real life tanuki (aka Japanese raccoon dog).

Clearly it’s a winner.:smiley:

+1

I am pretty sure that it a seal that died from using an orange dildo incorrectly.

I was going for badger, too.

Those tanuki are sure darned cute, though.