The Chinese ferret-badger is a small badger with a white forehead, black face, and long bushy tail. It is active at night and eats insects, earthworms, and small animals.
Its face is black with a white forehead stripe. The back varies from dark chocolate to grayish brown, and the underside ranges from white to orange. It has a slender body, large ears, and a long bushy tail.
It is active at night, often feeding on earthworms, insects, and small animals, and sometimes fruit. It uses burrows or rock crevices and may also climb into branches to sleep.
In Houhe National Nature Reserve in central China, it also eats fruit in autumn, and seeds of eight plant species have been found in its droppings.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.