Sentences with word «civet»

The beans are ingested by a particular type of civet cat (like a cross between a domestic cat and a raccoon in appearance, very cute) then excreted and washed (hopefully VERY thoroughly!!)

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.

Kopi luwak is a name for any beans collected from the excrement of civets, hence the taste may vary with the type and origin of beans ingested, processing subsequent to collection, roasting, ageing and brewing.

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.

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

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.

How about to taste the most expensive coffee in the world made from civet droppings?

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

It's basically made from coffee beans digested by civets and then «released» to be made into the most expensive coffee in the world.

Her zoo, nestled amongst a beautiful garden of native plants, is made up of a collection of exotic birds, butterflies, and other wildlife like civets, a monitor lizard, a sugar glider and a surprisingly tame bat.

They also make a point of explaining that their kopi luwak is collected from wild civet droppings.

Remains of species introduced to the island by humans, like the black rat and Indian civet, were also found in the cave, suggesting that the extinct lemurs were around when the first humans arrived.

HSBC, the large global bank formally known as Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, has come up with CIVETS to describe a group of countries that will be the next economic powers.

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

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.

It wasn't clear whether civets were the initial source of the virus, or if they caught it from some other animal.

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.

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).

The flat - headed cat and the otter civet are two such lowland and wetland specialists.

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

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

Researchers speculate that SARS may have leapt into civets and then humans, changing its genes slightly each time.

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

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.

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).

This design element reminds me of a well - crafted perfume where traditionally, a note or two of something really «off» and pungent (indoles, ambergris, castoreum, civet glands, etc.) was added to give richness and contrast to the scent.

Even if the submission guidelines are like, «Each corner of the manuscript must be dabbed with the urine of an incontinent civet cat and the writer must write his name backwards for the magic to take hold,» you do that shit because you're not a pretty pretty unicorn, you're a horse like the rest of us, goddamnit.)

I get that feeling from watching civets expertly peeling mangoes, and from having my rescued pugs nibble on my ear.

«Because of its increasing popularity, there is more civet coffee than ever, but I don't trust the quality,» said Rudy Widjaja, 68, whose 131 - year - old family - owned coffee store in Jakarta, Warung Tinggi, is considered Indonesia's oldest.

At the moment, I really couldn't think of anything I'd rather do than hang out at Balinese family - owned coffee compound in the jungle and drink poop coffee with my own family and a hyper civet.

On evening walks, watch the park come alive after dark and keep your eye out for nocturnal animals like Malagasy civets and mouse lemurs.

I tried the famous civet poo coffee, Kopi Luwak.

To be guaranteed the espresso is sheltered to devour, observe around the ranch to perceive how they cook the beans and even view an espresso consuming civets close up

In Bali, we try the world's most expensive coffee — kopi luwak — made from coffee beans that have been digested by an Indonesian civet cat and extracted from their poop.

Be careful when you want to buy coffee luwak because a lot of «Coffee Luwak» is not real or is made by caged civets.

Three antelope horns and one domestic goat horn, antelope and African civet hides, wood, copper, metal, fibre, beads, organic materials, ht 55.9 cm Purchased with funds from the Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc..

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.