GENEVA—Rare Chinese masked palm civet cats, a medicinal food animal in Southern China eaten to reduce the chance of winter infections like colds and flu, contain the coronavirus thought to cause ...

Kopi Luwak isn’t your regular brew but it is made from coffee beans eaten, digested, and excreted by civet cats. It is smooth, low-acidity flavor and rare production, and can cost over $100 ( INR ...

Sometimes called the civet cat, the palm civet is a small, furry, wide-eyed mammal with a face a bit like a raccoon. In 2003, scientists identified palm civets as the animal that was most likely ...

The musangs, as the palm civets are also known ... among other things. "Some of the civet cats bite themselves or hurt themselves in other ways out of stress. Also, they pace around, which ...

MELAKA: After much buzz about wild boars and macaques in Melaka, an environmental activist from the Portuguese community suggests promoting "musang" (Asian palm civet cats) to woo tourists.