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Diet: Primarily eats fruit, as well as birds, rodents, and insects [38] LC Unknown [38] Golden palm civet. P. zeylonensis (Schreber, 1778) Sri Lanka: Size: 50–58 cm (20–23 in) long, plus 43–53 cm (17–21 in) tail [3] Habitat: Forest and shrubland [39] Diet: Primarily eats berries, fruits, and invertebrates, as well as small vertebrates ...
Large Indian civet in Namdapha Tiger Reserve, India. The large Indian civet is solitary and nocturnal. It spends most of the time on the ground. It is an opportunistic hunter that preys on a wide variety of small animals. [1] Radio-tracked large Indian civets in Thailand had home ranges of 2.7 to 8.8 km 2 (1.0 to 3.4 sq mi). [8]
In spite of the heavy habitat destruction in the region, the civet still seems unusually threatened for a small, generalist carnivore. The region where the civet was known to occur is the site of a major trading port, formerly including the trade of civets such as the large-spotted civet. Due to this, there is some speculation on whether the ...
Viverra is a mammalian genus that was first named and described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 as comprising several species including the large Indian civet (V. zibetha). [2] The genus was subordinated to the viverrid family by John Edward Gray in 1821. [3]
Large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha) Linnaeus, 1758 [30] Malabar large-spotted civet ( Viverra civettina ) Blyth, 1862 Small Indian civet ( Viverricula indica ) (Desmarest, 1804) [ 31 ]
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Viverridae is a family of small to medium-sized feliform mammals, comprising 14 genera with 33 species.This family was named and first described by John Edward Gray in 1821. [3]
Being the largest viverrid currently known to ever exist, [3] it grew to about the size of a small leopard, around 40 kilograms (88 lb) and 59 centimetres (23 in) high at the shoulder. V. leakeyi looked physically similar to living Asiatic civet species but is thought to be more closely related to the African Civettictis civetta due to their ...