Selection occurs if the civets choose to eat coffee berries containing better beans.
Palm civets are primarily frugivorous, feeding on berries and pulpy fruits such as figs and palms.
Nests are raided by small mammals such as shrews and rodents, as well as more rarely by large mammals like civets and monkeys.
Miacoids were mostly small carnivores superficially reminiscent of martens or civets.
At first the centre rescued a variety of small animals, such as bushbabies, civets, warthogs, duikers, porcupines, assorted reptiles and birds.
People need to be aware that tens of thousands of civets are being kept in these conditions.
The civets are taken from the wild and have to endure horrific conditions.
Their only documented predatorsapart from humansinclude snakes, hawk-eagles and orangutans, although cats, civets and sun bears are suspected.
