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The Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus), also called common palm civet, toddy cat and musang, is a viverrid native to South and Southeast Asia. Since 2008, it is IUCN Red Listed as Least Concern as it accommodates to a broad range of habitats. It is widely distributed with large populations that in 2008 were thought unlikely to be ...
Museum records indicate that the Malay civet also occurred on the Indonesian islands of Java, Bawal and Telok Pai, and on the Philippine island Leyte. [6] In 2012, an individual was photographed in Singapore. [7] The Malay civet population in the Philippines may have originated in Borneo and colonized Palawan island naturally. It possibly later ...
The civet produces a musk (named civet after the animal) which is highly valued as a fragrance and stabilizing agent for perfume. Both male and female civets produce the strong-smelling secretion, which is produced by the civet's perineal glands. It is harvested by either killing the animal and removing the glands, or by scraping the secretions ...
Kopi luwak, also known as civet coffee, is a coffee that consists of partially digested coffee cherries, which have been eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). The cherries are fermented as they pass through a civet's intestines , and after being defecated with other fecal matter, they are collected. [ 1 ]
Brown palm civet, P. jerdoni Blanford, 1885 [8] Western Ghats, India In 2009, it was proposed to also include the golden wet-zone palm civet ( P. aureus , Cuvier , 1822), the Sri Lankan brown palm civet ( P. montanus , Kelaart , 1852) and the golden dry-zone palm civet ( P. stenocephalus , Groves et al., 2009), which are endemic to Sri Lanka. [ 9 ]
Civet cat is an imprecise term that is used for a variety of cat-like creatures including: . Viverrids, species of the family Viverridae; Civets, common name for small, mostly arboreal mammals native to the tropics of Africa and Asia including most viverrids as well as the African palm civet and Malagasy civet, which are in separate families
Sunda leopard cat: Prionailurus javanensis Desmarest, 1816: Split recently; not yet assessed by IUCN: Family Viverridae: Binturong: Arctictis binturong Raffles, 1822: Forest (arboreal) VU: Asian palm civet: Paradoxurus hermaphroditus Pallas, 1777: Wide range of forest, plantation, and urban environments LC: Malayan civet: Viverra tangalunga ...
Seventy to eighty percent of non-flying mammals in the Philippines are found nowhere else in the world. [1] Common mammals include the wild hog, deer, wild carabao, monkey, civet cat, and various rodents.