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

The enslaved parrot Methuselah, whose flesh has been devoured now by many generations of predators, is forcing his declaration of independence through the mouths of leopards and civet cats.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver