What Do Civets Eat? Fruit, Insects, Small Animals and the Coffee Myth
What do civets eat? Mostly fruit, and then almost anything small enough to catch: insects, worms, eggs, snails, rodents, birds...
Ethics & Sustainability
Masked Palm Civet: Facts, Range and Why It Is Not the Coffee Civet
The masked palm civet is the most widespread civet in Asia, a grey, fruit-eating, tree-living animal with a white stripe...
Civet Cat Skunk: Why Americans Call the Spotted Skunk a Civet Cat
A civet cat skunk is a spotted skunk. In parts of the United States, “civet cat” is an old local...
Is Civet Cat Dangerous? What the Evidence Says About Civets and People
Is civet cat dangerous? For most people, most of the time, no. Civets are shy, solitary and nocturnal, and the...
African Civet Cat: The Civet Family and Which Species Makes Coffee
The African civet cat is not a cat. It is Civettictis civetta, a heavy, nocturnal, ground-living member of the civet...
Is Kopi Luwak Cruel? The Truth About Caged and Wild Civets
Is kopi luwak cruel? When it comes from caged civets, yes, and the research is not ambiguous. When it is...
Civet Cat Perfume: What Civet Musk Is, and What It Has to Do With Coffee
Civet cat perfume is built on civet musk, a paste that civets secrete from a gland under the tail, and...
Gayo Coffee: Inside the Aceh Highlands Where Our Beans Grow
Gayo coffee is Arabica grown on the Gayo highlands of Aceh, at the northern tip of Sumatra; the gardens Original...
Top 20 Luwak Coffee Benefits
Kopi Luwak is an Indonesian specialty coffee made from coffee cherries eaten by the Asian palm civet, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus. The...
