civet
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Even Walmart’s website sells a roughly two-pound bag of Kopi Luwak coffee, which is made of beans excreted by a civet, for $449.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
Compound-specific nitrogen isotope analysis of amino acids was completed on the hair of two individuals for each civet species, insect, and plant samples.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024
Some civet coffee plantations have also increasingly branched out to include tourist interactions, raising new concerns about the animals’ welfare.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 12, 2023
Viruses leap from bats to humans either by way of an intermediary host, such as a pig, chimpanzee or civet, or more directly through human contact with bat urine, feces, blood, or saliva.
From Reuters ● May 16, 2023
Set upon by the civet cat, the spy, the eye, the hunger of a superior need, Methuselah is free of his captivity at last.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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