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

The results showed that faunivory was much more common in three of the civet species than previously thought.

From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2024

Some researchers suspected a species of civet was an intermediary for the COVID-19 virus jumping to people.

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

Then she rubbed me all over with some liniment that burned like fire and smelled like a civet cat.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls