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
Each civet species was captured in box traps.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024
Other animals identified as a potential source of the pandemic were the masked palm civet, which was also associated with the Sars outbreak in 2003, as well as hoary bamboo rats and Malayan porcupines.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 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
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
