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	Common Palm Civet - Paradoxurus hermaphroditus
		The common palm civet is found from the Himalayas and southern China, to the Philippines, the Malay peninsula, and the Indonesian islands.
		Weighing from 4 to 11 pounds, the palm civet's head and body length is 17 to 28 inches (43.2-71 cm), with a tail length of 16 to 26 inches (40.6-66 cm).
		The common palm civet disperses seeds of the trees on which it feeds by eating the seed pulp and passing the seeds well away from its parent tree.
	www.blueplanetbiomes.org /common_palm_civet.htm (518 words)

	Civet Cat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Civet or civet cat,any of a large group of mostly nocturnal mammals of the Old World family Viverridae (civet family), which also includes the mongoose.
		The common palm civet is well camouflaged: its coarse, dark, mottled coat ranges from olive-brown or reddish-brown to dark brown, and blends well with the colour of tree bark and shadows cast by leaves.
		The intestinal tract of the palm civet is highly specialised, capable of neutralising many types of plant poisons and allowing large seeds to pass through undamaged.
	www.tennmax.com /WST/News/CivetCat/CivetCat.htm (1630 words)

	Common Palm Civet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Common Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus), or Asian Palm Civet, Musang (in Malaysia and Indonesia), Luak or Luwak, or Toddy Cat, is a cat-sized mammal in the family Viverridae native to South-east Asia and southern China.
		Chelonia suggests that the SARS virus entered the human population from palm civets captured in the wild and improperly prepared for human consumption.
		In Sri Lanka, the palm civet is known as "Uguduwa" by the Sinhala speaking community.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Common_Palm_Civet (295 words)

	Field Trip Earth
		The civets also tend to coexist well with humans, the common palm civet often being a rather unwelcome resident in the roofs of houses.
		Both species of palm civets are well-adapted for climbing trees and not quite as carnivorous as the terrestrial small Indian civet, the latter being one of the most abundant and cosmopolitan of Sri Lanka’s carnivoran species.
		Civets average between 2 kg (females) and 3.5 kg (males), with palm civets being slightly heavier than the small Indian civet.
	www.fieldtripearth.org /print-article.xml?id=846 (1470 words)

	Civet
		Civets are the animals blamed for the S.A.R.S. virus that was responsible for many human deaths and illnesses beginning in 2003.
		Habitat: The Palm civet is a nocturnal forest dweller.
		They are also fond of the palm juice or "toddy" collected by the natives, hence one of their names "Toddy Cat".
	www.bigcatrescue.org /civet.htm (997 words)

	The Hindu : Cats of the night
		Civets are the nearest relatives to the cats.
		It is nocturnal in its habits and feeds on small animals, birds, reptiles, frogs, insects and often on eggs.The Indian civets include the Spotted Linsang or the Tiger civet, Large Indian civet, Small Indian civet, Common Palm civet or the toddy cat, Himalayan palm civet and the Binturong or the bear-cat.
		All civets, except the Spotted Linsang, have stink glands, the discharge of which is used in defence.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/yw/2002/02/23/stories/2002022300020300.htm (324 words)

	Common palm civet Paradoxurus hermaphroditus Schreber 1778
		The masked palm civet is distinguished from other Indian civets by its white whiskers and by the absence of spots or stripes on its body (Prater 1971).
		It is larger and heavier than the common palm civet with a relatively longer tail, which is cylindrical and thickly muscular in its proximal portion.
		The masked palm civet is mainly arboreal, nocturnal and largely solitary.
	www.wii.gov.in /envis/envisdec99/maskedpalmcivet.htm (479 words)

	Species: Palm Civet
		Publications/Presentations: Hema Krishnakumar, N. Balasubramanian and M. Balakrishnan (2003) Sequential pattern of behavior of the common palm civet, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus (Pallas), Int.
		The palm civets adopt the killing bite as in the case of the
		Eating in palm civets is neither continuous nor at random but occurs clustered at certain time periods as predicted by Berdoy (1993).
	www.lpzoo.com /ethograms/FRMS/menus/small_carnivore/palm_civet.htm (2315 words)

	Lioncrusher's Domain -- Common Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) facts and pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The common palm civet is found in the temperate and tropical rainforests from Kashmir in the west to the Philippines, from China in the north to the Sundas islands.
		The common palm civet has coarse, shaggy hair that is usually a greyish color, with fl on its feet, ears and muzzle.
		The common palm civet is solitary, nocturnal, and arboreal.
	www.lioncrusher.com /animal.asp?animal=109 (300 words)

	CBC News Indepth: SARS
		Most common is the carnivorous "ground" or "true" civet, which has dark spots and a ringed tail, with a number of species in Asia and one in Africa.
		The palm civet is a tree-dwelling, fruit-eating family, with a number of species found in Africa and Asia.
		Animal rights groups say the civet is often kept in a narrow cage where, every two or three weeks, a person will grab the animal while another applies pressure to the musk gland between the genitals and the tail to extract a fatty, yellow substance that's used as the basis of perfume.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/sars/civetcat.html (585 words)

	The Velvet Claw: Chapter 1b
		Like most true civets, African Palm Civets are primarily nocturnal foragers, gleaning prey as they meander through the canopy, occasionally taking fruit in addition to a staple diet of small vertebrates, eggs and insects.
		Common Palm Civets are partial to a drop of toddy, the juice tapped by people over much of southern Asia to ferment as palm wine.
		The civets expel the undigested kernels in their faeces and, when collected and ground, these passaged beans produce, so it is said, the finest coffee possible.
	lynx.uio.no /jon/lynx/vcchap1b.html (3415 words)

	Plastic Common Palm Civet - Plastic Toy Civet Cat in Tapir and Friends Wildlife World
		Civet cats have scent-producing glands that secrete a musky-smelling substance which is used as a perfume fixative.
		The common palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) is a solitary, arboreal, nocturnal animal that lives in the tropical forests of south Asia.
		Our common palm civet is made of hard plastic and measures 2 1/2 inches from nose to tail and stands approximately 3/4 inches high.
	www.tapirback.com /tapirgal/gifts/friends/mixed/civet-common-palm-plastic-f1075.htm (369 words)

	blogjam » Blog Archive » civet coffee
		Instead of the usual freeze-dried sweepings, I opt for Civet Coffee, described on the pack as “the rarest coffee in existance”, of which “only 500KGS are found each year”, produced “after fermentation in the civet’s digestive tract”.
		Yes, you heard me correctly, and the way it works is this: The Common Palm Civet Cat (actually part of the Mongoose family, and feared by many to be a possible source of the SARS virus) prowls the coffee plantations of Sumatra at night eating only the finest, ripest cherries.
		Civet Coffee is available from the Algerian Coffee Stores on Old Compton Street, in the heart of London’s popular homosexual district, or online from the manufacturer, who also produce a nice line in regurgitated weasel coffee as well as some tea that’s been hand-picked by specially trained monkeys.
	www.blogjam.com /2005/02/26/civet-coffee (1722 words)

	Coffee Luwak - National Zoo\| FONZ
		Weighing four to 11 pounds, the common palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphrodites) is a smallish carnivore that lives largely in the trees, where it emerges at night to forage alone for a mixed diet of fruit, insects, and small mammals.
		While often described as catlike, palm civets could probably better be thought of as an Asian version of a raccoon or one of the raccoon's tropical relatives like a coati or kinkajou.
		In Asia, the palm civet is also known as the toddy cat, for its fondness for the palm juice that is tapped to make a sweet liquor called toddy.
	nationalzoo.si.edu /Publications/Zoogoer/1996/4/coffeeluwak.cfm (520 words)

	Natural History Collections: Viverridae
		The civets and genets belong to one of the four families of terrestrial cat-like mammals descended from the Viverraines, which were civet/genet-like mammals.
		This diverse assemblage of thirty five species of cat-like creatures in twenty genera includes the civets (subfamilies Paradoxurinae, Nandinae, Hemigalinae) and genets (subfamily Viverrinae) plus such less well known creatures as the Asian binturong and the three Madagascan members of the family: the falanouc, fanaloka (subfamily Euplerinae) and the fossa (subfamily Cryptoprotinae).
		The least omnivorous viverrids are the palm civets, which feed almost exclusively on fruit.
	www.nhc.ed.ac.uk /index.php?page=24.134.166.172.297 (316 words)

	Resources on Common Palm Civet academic institutions (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Palm civet samples from the animal cage of the restaurant TDLR were collected by WHO...
		Common Palm Civet - Paradoxurus hermaphroditus: The common palm civet is found from the Himalayas and southern China, to thePhilippines,...
		Center for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases: The common palm civet is found in temperate and tropical rainforests from Kashmirin the west to the Philippines, from China to the Sundas islands.
	www.mongabay.org.cob-web.org:8888 /conservation/Common_Palm_Civet.htm (1502 words)

	SpinDizzy Muck - Civet FAQ
		The civet is a curious, active and usually quite vocal critter though many folks don't fully understand its speech pattern and posturing.
		Although many of these sounds begin with V it is not uncommon for a civet to substitute other guttural letter sounds such as B and G to create a somewhat different yet otherwise similar meaning.
		It is said the cheerfulness of a civet may be measured by the length of it vur.
	www.spindizzy.org /civets (600 words)

	Common palm civet Paradoxurus hermaphroditus Schreber 1778
		The brown palm civet is endemic to Western Ghats, It is distributed in the Palni, Nilgiri and Anamalai hills, Travancore and Coorg (Pocock 1939, Corbet and Hill 1992, Mudappa 1998) particularly at an altitude ranging between 500 and 1300 m.
		The brown palm civet is more or less similar to the common palm civet in size.
		The brown palm civet is found in well-wooded forests.
	www.wii.gov.in /envis/envisdec99/brownpalmcivet.htm (266 words)

	Kopi Luwak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kopi Luwak or Civet coffee is coffee made from coffee cherries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Common Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus).
		The animals gorge on the ripe berries, and the undigested beans are excreted.
		The inner bean of the berry is not digested, but it is believed that enzymes in the stomach of the civet add to the coffee's flavor by breaking down the proteins that give coffee its bitter taste.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kopi_Luwak (468 words)

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		Le Trong Dat NB SeizureQuantityWeightNotesOwston’s palm civet (Chrotogale owstonii)12.4 kgAdult male (to CPCP)Common palm civets (Paradoxurus h.)48.5 kgJavan mongoose4112.5 kg July 7 — Rangers discovered a shipment of mammals on a public bus from Quy Nhon town in Binh Dinh Province.
		Thuay said that the Owston’s palm civet was being sent to a Quang Ninh ranger (identified as Mr.
		The adult male Owston’s palm civet was received by the Cuc Phuong Conservation Project.
	nytts.org /vietnam/tradenotes_09-00.doc (2729 words)

	Wild Trade Vietnam - Eats
		The bottom photo is a close-up of the civet, which I beleive is the the relatively common palm civet (cay voi dom) Paradoxurus hermaphroditus.
		The languishing appearance of the animalis partly because, like most civets, the palm civet is a nocturnal hunter and frugivore.
		Some are seriously endangerd, among them the binturong (cay muc) Arctictis binturong, Owston's palm civet cay van bac Chirotogale owstoni, the spotted linsang (cay gcaym) Prionodon pardicolor and the otter-civet (cay rai ca) Cynogale bennettii.
	coombs.anu.edu.au /~vern/wild-trade/eats/eats.html (1155 words)

	Does the Coffee Gain Its Flavor in the Civet Overnight? by SharonA
		One coffee retailer in Atlanta sells something called "luwak" coffee, which it claims is picked by the common palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphrodites), often described as catlike, but probably better thought of as an Asian version of a raccoon, coati or kinkajou.
		The palm civet is also known as the 'toddy cat,' for its fondness for the palm juice that is tapped to make a sweet liquor.
		And because palm civets repeatedly deposit their droppings in piles at the same spots, the coffee beans are easily collected, roasted then brewed into kopi luwak--civet coffee.
	www.geocities.com /doireanne/doesthecoffee.html (555 words)

	Indian Giant Squirrel
		Nature Conservation Foundation - People:...culminated in an initiation into the joys and trials of field research with a study on the space-use and foraging patterns of the Indian giant squirrel in the...
		It was grey in colour, larger than the common Five-striped Palm Squirrel but smaller than the Indian Giant Squirrel, he said.
		:...palm civet (Paradoxurus jerdoni), slender loris (Loris tardigradus), grizzled giant squirrel (Ratufa macroura), and Indian giant squirrel (Ratufa indica) (IUCN...
	specieslist.com /endangered/common_name/I/Indian_Giant_Squirrel.shtml (1899 words)

	Common palm civet Paradoxurus hermaphroditus Schreber 1778
		The common palm civet is distributed in northern Pakistan and in entire India from east of Gujarat to Jammu and Kashmir, whole of the peninsula down south up to Sri Lanka.
		In the north of India from Nepal, Bhutan and south China, eastward through West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh (Pocock 1939, ZSI 1992, Choudhury 1997,a,b, 1999, Datta 1999, Jha 1999) to Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea and Japan (Pocock 1939, Medway 1978, Corbet and Hill 1992, Wozencraft 1993).
		Like other civets it is mostly solitary, nocturnal and largely arboreal, although freely descending to the ground to cross open spaces.
	www.wii.gov.in /envis/envisdec99/commonpalmcivet.htm (415 words)

	kalyan: Civet Coffee (Kopi Luwak)
		The civet loves coffee berries and when it eats them, the civet only digests the fruit and the actually coffee bean, comes out in its droppings.
		People believe that these civets know how ripe these berries are and they always pick the berries which are just right.
		It is also believed that enzymes in the stomach of the civet add to the coffee's flavor by breaking down the proteins that give coffee its bitter taste.
	kalyan.livejournal.com /197766.html?thread=1887366 (286 words)

	Coffee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The beans are collected from the droppings of the Common Palm Civet, whose digestive processes give it a distinctive flavour.
		Chocolate is a common additive that is either sprinkled on top or added to the Coffee to imitate the taste of Mocha.
		Indian (Madras) filter coffee, particularly common in the south of the country, is prepared off rough ground dark roasted Coffee beans (Arabica, PeaBerry).
	coffee.iqnaut.net (4114 words)

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