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Meaning of "civets"

Civet refers to a small, carnivorous mammal native to tropical regions of Asia and Africa. Civets are known for producing a musky secretion used in the production of perfumes like musk and are also famous for their coffee beans excreted after consuming coffee cherries
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Members of this family are commonly called civets or genets.
Malagasy civets are nocturnal.
It might keep other civets away.
Civets will scour for days looking for this tasty treat.
Ripe coffee cherries are eaten by civets.
Civets and honey badgers are just two of the rarer creatures sometimes encountered.
Miacoids were mostly small carnivores superficially reminiscent of martens or civets.
Keeping civets in cages and feeding them any old cherries leads to an inferior product.
It is traditionally served with civets.
Palm civets spend most of their time in trees eating fruits and small animals.
Several retailers have since stopped selling coffee produced by caged civets.
Asian palm civets rarely communicate vocally other than when they are agitated or being attacked.
In parts of China masked palm civets are hunted for their meat and eaten.
SARS originated from traded civets.
Small Indian civets are generally solitary and nocturnal.

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World Animal Protection investigated African civets caught for this purpose.
The African civets are known to be the carrier of rabies.
A number of smuggled wild animals included iguana, snake and civets.
The right to transport Civets across a State line.
Civets are detained in cages and force-fed coffee cherries.
These are the palm civets of Southeast Asia.
So, civets and camels would serve as intermediate hosts for zoonotic transmission.
Currently, there is no information on the general reproductive behavior of brown palm civets.
Some of the civets in this family include:.
Rabies was also confirmed in one elephant, several civets and many jackal in Zimbabwe.
Increasingly, civets are instead kept in cramped, unsanitary cages on coffee plantations.
Is that in the Philippines, the civets are still left free.
People also use civets as rodent catchers, since they eat rats and mice.
And then get collected from the… Droppings. The beans ferment inside the animal Civets.
Apparently, the civets eat the coffee cherries.
Civets are caught in the wild, put into small cages and forced into a coffee-berry diet.
In recent times, masked palm civets were considered to be a likely vector of SARS.
Civets born abroad can carry the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome ( SARS ).
CDV also was detected in bears, civets and macaques in the same settings.
Captive civets are sometimes fed only coffee cherries, the fruit that produces coffee beans.
More sleuthing showed that civets were not SARS 's main animal host.
Other animals found in this area are deer, lion-tailed macaques and civets.
But are civets really the source of SARS coronavirus?
I understand the countryside abounds here with wild game . flamingos, flying wombats, Indian civets.
African Palm Civets have two sets of scent glands that secret strong-smelling substances.
The beans ferment inside the animal droppings. and then get collected from the, uh… - Civets.
Masked palm civets are known to reach 15 years of age in captivity.
New forms became bats . Civets.
It might keep other civets away, but he 's in for a surprise visit.
Because, in Central America, there are no civets.
Rain forest civets living in battery-like conditions, force-fed coffee beans.
The average lifespan of a captive African civets is 15 to 20 years.
Civets and coffee cherries, pachyderms and poop - can the artificial fermentation of coffee beans[… ].
Wild boars, monkeys and palm civets still roam the streets, residents say.
From tiny shrews [came] tenrecs, accustomed to the dark. New forms became bats. Civets.

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