Click Random, The Naturist — Small-Toothed Palm Civet

You can’t see it, but it’s wearing a pink tutu. (Source)

Hang on, give me a minute to crack out my best David Attenborough impression.

Here we see the Small-toothed Palm Civet in its natural habitat, the trees. 

Like many other Palm Civets, the Civet of the small-toothed variety is nocturnal, they like their own company being a solitary creature, and they are arboreal, meaning that they spend almost all their time in trees and bloody difficult to observe. Damn hippies.

The Small-toothed Palm Civet is monotypic, so there is only one type or species of this animal. Wrong, Wrong, Wrong! Wikipedia, get your facts right! 

This article must have been written in the 1950s. Studies of their calls and molecular distribution dating back to 1989 and up to present day have considered that there are multiple species of Small-toothed Palm Civet found in Indochina and Southeast Asia.

This small-toothed mammal is an omnivore. Despite its small nibbly teeth, it has a healthy balanced diet of fruit, small mammals, frogs, birds, and lizards to get those gains.

Due to its presumed large population — it can produce an average litter of three twice a year, with a quick gestation period of 45 days — and protected habitat, conservationists are not concerned about this Palm Civet. Its main natural threat is an occasionally peckish reticulated python

Sadly, it is us that pose the biggest threat through deforestation or an occasionally peckish human. Civets are also quite popular on the black market. It seems quite fashionable to keep one as a pet and dress it up as a superhero.
“Owning dogs and cats is just too mainstream. Civets are unique and just as adorable.”
Hmm. Can’t argue with that.

Now, let’s shine a light on this civet.


It’s looking straight at us and snarling its tiny teeth. That’s actually quite cute. Shit! Run!


Random Facts

· Scientifically, the Small-toothed palm civet is known as Arctogalidia trivirgata. Arctogalidia meaning “bear-weasel” in Ancient Greek, and trivirgata meaning “three-striped” in Latin.

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