Sentences with phrase «small civets»

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

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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.