This is the first of 2 close up days for my Asian Palm Civet. I decided to split the Close Up Days so I can talk about my favorite fun facts about the Asian Palm Civet this week and then go into the Kopi Luwak Coffee Industry next week. The Asian Palm Civet's ability to choose the sweetest and ripest of coffee cherries is only a small part of it's diet. It has a sweet tooth and consumes many other types of fruits and plant sugars including chiku, mangoes, bananas, rambutan, papayas, nectar of silk cotton trees, and sap from the flowers of sugar palm trees. The fermented sap from the sugar palm trees is called toddy so the Asian Palm Civet was given the nickname Toddy Cat. Because of this love of fruit, these toddy cats are very important to their tropical forest ecosystems. Coffee beans in their poop is just one of the many seeds they disperse throughout the forests. The Asian Palm Civet also eats meats like small rodents, birds, insects, worms, seeds, eggs, reptiles, snails, and scorpions. Looking at the Asian Palm Civet's teeth, they have weaker carnivore teeth than their other relative civets who more meat based diets. The Asian Palm Civet is compared a lot to the North American Raccoon. They have both adapted well to living near humans. They have similar facial markings. They are also omnivorous in their eating habits. The Asian Palm Civet is nocturnal and solitary except for mating season. Other than seeing its habits through captive breeding, wild Asian Palm Civets mating and raising their young is largely unknown. Each Toddy cat has its own territory and only goes into other territories when it does not have enough food. To communicate with other Toddy Cats, it uses scent marking that it puts down by rubbing its scent glands on the ground. These civets are mostly silent but will make noises like meowing, hissing, snarling, and spitting. For more information Check out my References Below.
Asian Palm Civet Facts https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Paradoxurus_hermaphroditus/ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-24034029 http://animalia.bio/asian-palm-civet The Asian Palm Civet and the Kopi luwak coffee industry https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/04/160429-kopi-luwak-captive-civet-coffee-Indonesia/ www.businessinsider.com/kopi-luwak-cat-poop-worlds-most-expensive-coffee-taste-test-2018-11%3famp
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