Sentences with phrase «malagasy civets»

CIVETS is a term coined by HSBC (a very large global bank) to describe some of the new emerging markets.

The Rainforest Alliance and UTZ both run programs designed to protect the welfare of the civets.

Doi Chaang Wild Civet coffee is produced from the scat of strictly wild civets eating only high quality, organic arabica beans in Thailand.

This includes that civet cat stuff featured on «The Bucket List.»

An Asian version known as kopi luwak undergoes a peculiar thing made from berries eaten by the Asian palm civet, passing through its digestive tract, with the beans eventually harvested from feces.

Gayo Kopi works with exclusive coffee farms who are certified by the Indonesian government to only source from free - roaming wild Civets.

The Civet seeks out and ingests the only the finest coffee cherries as part of its varied diet.

Gayo Kopi provides the world's most exquisite, animal - friendly Wild Kopi Luwak Arabica coffee beans in the world, processed by the Asian Palm Civet in Indonesia.

An exotic salsa comprised of dried Morita chili peppers, Ley.925 ultra-premium añejo tequila and civet coffee tops the taco which is served on a gold flake - infused corn tortilla.

Kopi Luwak (Luwak Coffee) is sourced from the Asian Palm Civet, a cousin to the Mongoose, in Indonesia.

Detroit - based startup Gäyo Kopi has introduced wild - certified Kopi Luwak coffee (sourced from wild civets in Indonesia) to the US market, completing pre-order shipments of the rare imported coffee this month, the company said.

In that outbreak, masked palm civets sold in live animal markets passed the virus to people.

They keep three hundred civets, which they tell me they feed twice a day, on bananas, rice, and meat.

In the meantime the quest for a thoroughly humane way of harvesting civet continues.

The paste is the potent secretion produced by the perineal glands of both male and female civets.

Civet is a catlike animal with a long tail and a long, pointed muzzle like that of an otter.

Each civet has its own wooden cage, which is cleaned every three days.

In the middle of the cage, there is a wooden stick about two inches in diameter and a yard long onto which the civet releases its paste.

I sampled some of this civet paste and found it to be a murky, light brown paste, like a hair pomade.

Pure civet is a crude, buttery - yellow paste that turns darker with age.

I have found a company in Thailand that appears to be selling sustainable, humanely produced civet.

A face or chest pattern with several highly contrasted color shades — like the masked palm civet (Paguma larvata)-- was given a high complexity score, whereas animals with fairly uniform faces and chests had lower scores.

Despite previous logging and farming in the planted forests zone, more than 400 vertebrate species, including bears, civets, macaques, leopard cats, mongooses, pangolins, and porcupines, have been spotted there.

Equally threatened, but restricted to the highlands are Hose's civet and Bornean ferret badger.

To figure out the purpose of these patterns, Tim Caro, a biologist at the University of California, Davis, and colleagues collected photographs of 164 terrestrial predators from six families of predators — canids, felids, ursids (bears), mustelids (which include weasels, otters, and badgers), viverrids (which include civets, binturongs, and other catlike animals), and herpestids (mongooses and meerkats).

A tasting of civet coffee, which is roasted only after it has passed all the way through the digestive tract of a civet cat.

The African civet sports a necklace of dark and light bands.

A crowded stall in Guangdong is where the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) jumped from an animal, probably a civet cat, into a human in 2003.

The first introduction of disease from chickens or civets does not produce a pandemic.

Molecular analysis shows that SARS is closely related to coronaviruses found in civet cats in the animal markets of Guangdong, though scientists are still not certain that civets were the original reservoir.

John Mathai, lead author of the overarching carnivore community paper in the supplement and a wildlife ecologist from Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, studies Hose's civet in the highlands of Sarawak.

In the markets of Guangdong province, which borders on the South China Sea, thousands of chickens, ducks, quail, and geese squawk endlessly, crammed into cages next to or stacked on top of wilder creatures — civet cats, raccoon dogs, snakes, and turtles.

In viverrids like the African civet (Civettictis civetta), highly striped and color - flecked faces belonged to species that were more likely to fight back against other predators, indicating the markings might serve as a warning.

Unfortunately for him and for many other people, he had picked up severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS — perhaps directly from an infected bat or from a small, arboreal mammal called a civet, common in one of Guangdong's famous «wet markets» that sell wild animals for food, or else from a person or chain of people ultimately infected from one of those animal sources.

A yet - unknown creature was probably involved — one that may have infected both the bats and the civets.

But when scientists tested civets in the wild or on farms, they found no trace of the disease.

After the deadly virus struck in 2002, disease researchers traced it to raccoonlike animals called Himalayan palm civets, which are sold for food in live - animal markets in China.

The lack of surrounding vegetation makes for a quick and easy getaway from predators, such as civets and pythons.

Video footage from these camera traps are providing vital information about this critically endangered species as well as an array of other charismatic animals such as the bonobo, African palm civet, and potto who also inhabit the Lomami National Park.

Here they can hide from predators, such as civets and pythons.

Several species, including mongooses, civets, and even giant pandas, are known to do handstands to make a scent mark.

By 1.5 million years ago, just hypercarnivores that ate only meat, such as lions and leopards, had survived while omnivores that scavenged and ate a wider range of foods, like civets, had disappeared.

Together, the results mean that early SARS cases probably came directly from civets and that it will probably happen again.

Early in the epidemic, an array of SARS strains were present, some with genetic fingerprints that resembled those of the civet virus.

Perhaps hominins could scare away the relatively small civets, for example, by working in groups and throwing stones at them, says Werdelin.

In spring 2003, the virologist at Hong Kong University (HKU) isolated the SARS virus from masked palm civets in a wild animal market in China's Guangdong Province.

When the virus flared up again in late 2003, his team's recommendation to slaughter all captive civets in the area may have been the key to stopping SARS in its tracks: The virus has not reemerged since.

bushmeat Wild mammals eaten by people, including not only cats, Chinese bamboo rats, squirrels, badgers and civets but also nonhuman primates, such as monkeys, chimps and gorillas.

SARSr - CoVs detected in southeastern, central and northern provinces, such as Hong Kong, Hubei and Shaanxi, formed the other clade which was phylogenetically distant to human and civet SARS - CoVs (Fig 6 and S6 Fig).

The world's most expensive coffee, Kopi Luwak, costs $ 600 per pound and is literally coffee beans eaten and excreted by a Asian Palm Civet (a large cat).