| Fish owls, jungle cats, civets, and even house cats are reported to eat them. |
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| Six of the animals tested were masked palm civets, which look like long-nosed cats but are related to the mongoose. |
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| All mongooses are members of a family of small to medium-sized carnivores called the Viverridae, which also includes civets and genets. |
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| There are masked palm civets, bamboo rats, hog nosed badgers, boars, barking deer and giant flying squirrels, as well as cats and dogs. |
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| African viverrids tend to be carnivorous, but the civets common to China prefer to dine on fruit, especially spiky, foul-smelling durians. |
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| The leopard cat, jungle cat, civets and toddy cats are the cats found commonly. |
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| Besides working on lorises, she has studied ruffed lemurs, flying squirrels, opossums, civets, and several species of bats. |
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| A few members of the cat family are occasionally spotted, including serval cats, civets, African wild cats and caraculs. |
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| It comes initially from wild civets and raccoon dogs that are culinary delicacies in Southeast China. |
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| Raccoons, civets, jackals, badgers, skunks, and bears also eat fruit, honey, seeds, roots, and other plant foods. |
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| However, they are not pests because palm civets digest only the outer pulp of fruit, passing the coffee beans unharmed through their digestive systems. |
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| This small forest is rich in mammal species like the red-tailed and grivet monkeys, the dwarf bush baby, the Potto and the African and palm civets. |
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| People believe that these civets know how ripe these berries are, always picking the berries which are just right. |
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| Much like the civets, badgers, and foxes, these animals were in small wire cages in fair numbers in the wildlife markets. |
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| The virus has already been detected in palm civets, ferret badgers and racoon dogs. |
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| With no other carnivores around, mongooses and civets became Madagascar's predators, and the fossa filled the hunting niche usually occupied by cats. |
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| He had not, apparently, eaten any wild animals in the month before he fell ill, and does not appear to have had any contact with palm civets. |
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| On coffee plantations, palm civets dine heavily on coffee cherries. |
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| Burrows which have been abandoned may be used for shelter by bats, ground squirrels, hares, cats, civets, hyenas, jackals, porcupines, monitor lizards, owls and warthogs. |
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| And since palm civets have been identified as a possible source of the SARS virus, a cull looks, on the face of things, like a good idea. But the trouble is that nobody knows if it will actually do any good. |
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| They have just published their analysis in Science. The shock of the newThe researchers reinforced the idea that palm civets were the virus's point of departure into people. |
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| High levels of antibodies to the virus were also found in people trading masked palm civets, which are considered a delicacy in parts of China. |
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| Besides, if palm civets actually are one of the animal reservoirs of the virus, a reckless cull, the WHO has warned, would risk spreading the disease by causing unnecessary contact between civets and people. |
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| The southern plains are home to mongooses, civets, hares, the Asiatic jackal, the Indian pangolin, the jungle cat, and the desert cat. |
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| In China in 2004, to try and stop the SARS epidemic, the authorities killed over 10.000 civets during a campaign of extermination of this animal suspected to spread the disease. |
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| Many local animals have been screened and evidence of SARS has been found in three species palm civets, racoon dogs and Chinese ferret badgers that are sold alive in food markets. |
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| Exposure rates among animal merchants ranged from 19 percent in those selling cats to 73 percent in traders of masked palm civets. |
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| This raises the question of whether it was contaminated by accident. During the initial outbreak, SARS-like viruses were found in several species besides palm civets. |
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| A total of 24 baby parakeets, three juvenile common civets and three juvenile leopard cats found a new home in the ACCB, which will be temporary for most of them. |
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| Stink badgers are preyed upon by civets, cats, and humans. |
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| From the 25 animals sampled, viruses closely related to SARS-CoV were detected in 3 masked palm civets and 1 raccoon dog. |
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| Other characteristic meat dishes are the civets of wild boar or hare, partridge in vinegar, and combinations of vegetables such as green sprouts and potatoes with pieces of bacon. |
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| Nocturnal marsupials, such as cuscus and bandicoots, make up the majority of the mammal species, and introduced mammals include Malayan civets and wild pigs. |
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| Last week, Yuen's team, in collaboration with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Shenzhen, successfully isolated the SARS coronavirus from masked palm civets. |
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| Civets love this bean, and search out the tastiest examples with their long, foxlike nose. |
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