Talk:Asian palm civet

Some sources refer to a "Chinese Lesser Civet" or "Small Chinese Civet", labeled Viverricula indica pallida. A-giau 20:42, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Viverricula indica itself is known as "small Indian civet", also found in southern China. A-giau 21:10, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The latin name for the Asian Palm Civet is "Paradoxurus hermaphroditus". Hermaphroditic Paradox? WTF? Does anyone know the history behind this name?

Just found it! Apparently, the common palm civet has large secretory glands near its anus, and they look a lot like testes. Both genders have them, so that explains the "hermaphroditus" part. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.165.147.95 (talk) 06:22, 27 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Perhaps it's pointless to reply to a long-ago IP post, but if you found a source for this information, why didn't you add it? Shmuser (talk) 00:22, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

Maranai
....and as Maranai in Tamil.... This part is not correct. In Tamil Maranai points to an animal Nilgiri Marten--Praveen: talk 01:15, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

SARS
It should be noted that the animal that the scientists are referring to in reference to SARS is the Palm Civet, Paguma larvata. Therefore, I place this section from the article, including resp. reflist, here for the time being.
 * The SARS virus was thought to have entered the human population from masked palm civets captured in the wild and improperly prepared for human consumption. However, a paper by Daniel Janies et al. (February 2008) published by the journal Cladistics, uses evidence from the sequences of many SARS genomes to show that the civets' cases of SARS were just one part of the family tree of SARS viruses in humans – probably humans got SARS from bats, then humans gave it to pigs once and to small civets once, and then these small carnivores may have given the disease back to humans once or twice. All the cases of SARS associated with the outbreak appeared to be part of the bat branch of the coronavirus phylogeny.

-- BhagyaMani (talk) 17:48, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Luwats are cute!
Gee, luwats are so cute? Can I add something to the page about how cute luwats are? Do I need a citation? Luwat (talk) 02:10, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

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Common names vs. local names
Several months ago I added two common names to the introductory paragraph of this article; "common palm civet" and "Mentawai palm civet". Another editor then moved these names to the "local names" section of the page(?) I mean no disrespect, but this change appears to make no sense. Common palm civet and Mentawai palm civet are both listed as the English common names by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) http://oldredlist.iucnredlist.org/details/41693/0 The IUCN makes no mention of "toddy cat". If toddy cat is being allowed as a common name on this Wikipedia page, why isn’t the obvious choice of "common palm civet" being allowed as a common name? It was my understanding that the IUCN was a definitive source for taxonomy information(?) – Down time (talk) 15:11, 3 February 2018 (UTC)


 * I noticed the name "toddy cat" has been moved to the local names section of the page. Thank you to the editor for your efforts on this page. In the "local names" section each local name has a country associated with it. What part of the world uses the name "toddy cat"? And what countries use "common palm civet" and "Mentawai palm civet"? Is "Mentawai palm civet" used in a different region than "common palm civet"? If so, should Mentawai palm and common palm be listed separate from one another in this section? It seems like regions should be added alongside these new additions so they are being presented in the same manner as the other names that were already in the local names section. Perhaps doing this would keep the local names section more consistent? What do you think? Thanks much – Down time (talk) 19:18, 8 February 2018 (UTC)


 * I moved the names to improve consistency, after reading your objection. But am not sure about whether the use of *toddy cat* is limited to one country only. I heard it in several and remember that *toddy* possibly refers to the juice from palms. Since Mentawai is off-coast Sumatra, I suppose that this name is used only by resident people of these islands. Why don't you find this out yourself? -- BhagyaMani (talk) 19:34, 8 February 2018 (UTC)


 * The source I had originally cited (IUCN) for my addition of these names supported "common palm civet" as an accepted English common name, not a local name, so to avoid confusion I removed the citation since it is no longer applicable to the section the content was moved to. – Down time (talk) 14:29, 25 April 2018 (UTC)