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

The Google animal has a beaver tail.

Mushroom, Mushroom!

The Google animal has a broad tail, but you can’t tell anything about the texture from the art.

A tanuki’s tail can be broad-furred.

My first impression was racoon.

I was torn between raccoon and badger, but I was leaning towards raccoon.

Maybe that isn’t a tail.

Thanks, gnoitall.

I think it is an Asian badger (Meles leucurus) I think the telling feature are the face markings, which are quite distinct to lend this ID. Otherwise it could be any number of dog/racoon/badger animals.

Look here for information: Asian badger - Wikipedia

Or search images for better pics; that poor stuffed critter on the wiki site is really a poor example.