Life Habits of Civet

Abstract: masked palm civet is a kind of forest edge beast. They mainly live in rainforest, evergreen or deciduous broad-leaved forest, sparse forest scrub or bare rock mixed with stone mountains. They often use dense thickets, tree caves, soil caves and caves as seclusion places, rest in caves in winter and spring, and often hide in dense thickets in summer. Now let's take a look at masked palm civet's living habits and distribution of producing areas.

Masked palm civet is a kind of forest edge beast. They mainly live in rain forests, evergreen or deciduous broad-leaved forests, sparse forest thickets or bare rock areas mixed with stone mountains. They often use dense thickets, tree caves, soil caves and caves as seclusion places. They often rest in caves in winter and spring, and hot summer is often hidden in dense thickets. Let's take a look at masked palm civet's living habits and producing area distribution.

The morphological characteristics of masked palm civet

Masked palm civet has a limb length of 48cm, a tail length of 37cm and a weight of 3600cm and 5000g. The body hair is short and thick, the body color is yellow-grayish brown, the head hair is black, there is a distinct four-band from the forehead to the bridge of the nose, there are white spots under the eyes and ears, and the back hair is grayish brown. The back of the head, shoulder, the end of the limbs and the back half of the tail are black, the limbs are short and strong, each with five toes. The toe end has claws, the claws are slightly flexible, and the tail is long, which is about 2/3 of the body length.

Masked palm civet's living habits

Masked palm civet is a forest edge animal, nocturnal animal. Like activities at dusk, night and before sunrise, good at climbing, omnivorous animals, quite like to eat succulent fruits, to wild fruits and grains as the staple food, but also eat branches and leaves, but also to the orchard to eat fruit, occasionally eat their own feces. There are stinky glands near the anus, which will release a strange smell to drive them away when they are attacked.

The Origin Distribution of masked palm civet

Masked palm civet mainly lives in forests, shrubs, caves, tree caves or soil caves, and can be found occasionally in reclaimed land, distributed in the wild in Indochina Peninsula, Indonesia, Myanmar, India, Bhutan, Nepal and vast areas south of North China, from the western suburbs of Beijing, Datong, Shanxi, Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi, Sichuan to the Himalayas south of Xizang, and south to Taiwan, Hainan Island and the southern edge of Yunnan. Among them, the named subspecies Paguma larvata is distributed in the southeastern provinces and endemic to Taiwan, ranging from low to high altitude mountain areas, but mainly in middle and low altitude mountain areas and reclaimed land.

In addition, there are a large number of artificial breeds of masked palm civet in Jiangxi, Guangxi, Hainan, Fujian and Guangdong.