Have you ever seen an African Civet? It has black and white splotches all over its body (reminds me of a hyena's markings) and black around its eyes much like a raccoon. They're very agile and fast ...

The increased demand for civet coffee has fueled civet poaching and smuggling. If we can recreate similar fermentation in a ...

Kopi Luwak, otherwise known as the world’s most expensive coffee, is made from cat poop. Well, almost. It’s actually made from the digested coffee beans of civets, small cat-like creatures that ...

Kopi Luwak coffee beans also known as civet coffee come from the Asian palm civet, a catlike animal found in Indonesia. Carola Frentzen/dpa Bali's coffee gardens are the perfect place to relax, where ...

The world’s most prized coffee comes from partially digested beans pooped out by the Asian palm civet. Now, researchers are delving into why this “civet coffee” is so tasty. New chemical analyses of ...

World's most expensive coffee has a controversial history. — -- The most expensive coffee in the world is harvested from a place where the sun don’t shine. It’s an exotic delicacy called Kopi ...

When is a carnivore no longer a carnivore? A new study in mongabay.com’s open access journal Tropical Conservation Science has found that the brown palm civet (Paradoxurus jerdoni), a cat-sized ...

This video likely shows the relatively common small Indian civet, not the critically endangered Malabar civet, but the specific species has yet to be confirmed. It's also unclear if this sighting was ...