Exempel på civet

• 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.

• Matching the habits of other palm civets, this species is solitary, arboreal and nocturnal.

• Nocturnal animals like fox, hyena, jungle cat, civets, porcupine, ratel or honey badger and hares can be seen outside the park confines.

• Many of these civets are housed in battery cage systems which have been criticised on animal welfare grounds.

• Passing through a civet's intestines the beans are then defecated with other fecal matter and collected.

• Wildlife include elephants, giraffes, impalas, warthogs, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, pangolins, elephant shrews, mongooses, civets, galagos, jackals, baboons, hyppopotamuses, colobuses, as well as over 80 species of birds.

• Later studies revealed, however, that the alleged monkey-eating eagle also ate other animals, such as colugos, civets, large snakes, monitor lizards, and even large birds, such as hornbills.

• Among the creatures that inhabit the park are the rare hoolock gibbon, golden langur, hornbill, palm civets, black stork, tiger, white-breasted kingfisher, monitor lizard, python and sloth bear.