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Owston's palm civet (Chrotogale owstoni) is a civet native to Vietnam, Laos and a very small portion of southern China, in three counties of the Yunnan province: Hekou, Luchun, and Jinping, and has never been found west of the Mekong river.

The Owston's palm civet is a mid-sized palm civet at 57 cm (23 in), plus a tail of 43 cm (17 in), weighing anywhere from 4-6 lbs. Newborn Owston's civets are born weighing around 88 grams, or 0.019 lbs . With its pointed face, it is sometimes thought to resemble a large insectivore, such as a shrew. They have large ears, that are rounded unlike many cat-like carnivores, as well as black eyes . It has a tawny buff-gray body with highly contrasted black markings on its back and tail. They usually only have 4 Black bands on their back. These bands start as high as their eyes and run down to the first third of their tails . The last two-thirds of the tail is completely black. They look somewhat like the banded palm civet, Hemigalus derbyanus, except for that the hair on the back of their neck are not reversed, and the Owston's has spots on its legs. '''Both males and females of this species are very skinny, with resemblance to both ferrets and housecats (ADW). SInce both males and females have the same markings, the only way to distinguish the sexes is through looking at genitalia and pelage. Female civets possess an orange pelage only on their lower bellies, whereas in males this orange patch goes up through the chest, and can be duller than the females or brighter .'''