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Compounding the problem, the civets themselves are now hunted and served on the dinner tables of the country's nouveau riche, he said.

But later research revealed that the virus actually started out in bats and then spread to palm civets and humans.

Even those that do know prefer to kill the civets because their livestock are worth more than a few centimetres of droppings.

Prof Yuen said it was unlikely that people had been infected by eating civets .

"The more people protect the environment, the more chance the civets will have to survive and come and eat the coffee. "

Experts say wild civets are the most discerning, but their droppings are also the most difficult to harvest.

In cats and civets the clitoris is a complicated structure reinforced with bone, and the organ is particularly prominent.

The civets' habitat is threatened by climate change and deforestation, triggering the slump.

Critics say CIVETS countries have nothing in common beyond their youthful populations.

Civets are a popular food in southern China during winter.

Civets, new predators, hyenas getting faster and faster still.

in all of the civets, there remains a yawning divide between rich and poor.

We lack of basic biological data on masked palm civets.

monotypic genus of Madagascar civets closely related to palm civets.

Another possible reason is that palm civets have an unfailing instinct for picking the coffee cherries at the peak of their ripeness.

It might well have jumped from another animal into the civets , and it will take a lot of work to sort that out.

New forms became bats. Civets.

"My target is to have 150 civets soon because I have to meet the surge in demand, " Supriadi said.

Other nocturnal solitary predators such as civets, mongooses and even hyenas are known to purr occasionally.

The result is that farmers are killing civets more regularly to protect their hens and ducks.

The Obtainment and Expenditure of Small Civets Energy and the Features of their Fragrance