Kopi Luwak pound in 2010. The specialty Vietnamese "weasel coffee", which is made by collecting coffee beans eaten by wild civets, is sold at US$500 per kilogram. Most customers are Asian, especially those originating from Japan, China and South Korea. Sources vary widely as to annual worldwide production. The price of farmed (considered low-grade by connoisseurs) kopi luwak in large Indonesian supermarkets is from US$100 per kilogram (five times the price of a high quality local arabica coffee). The price paid to collectors in the Philippines is closer to US$20 per kilogram. Some specialty coffee shops sell cups of brewed kopi luwak
Small-toothed palm civet Small-toothed palm civet The small-toothed palm civet ("Arctogalidia trivirgata"), also known as the three-striped palm civet, is a palm civet. It lives in dense forests of southeast Asia, from the Assam district of India to Indochina and the Malay Peninsula and on Sumatra, Bangka, Java, Borneo, and numerous small nearby islands of Indonesia. A monotypic genus, "Arctogalidia" means ‘bear-weasel’ (from ancient Greek "arkto-" ‘bear’ + "galidia" ‘little weasel’). The specific epithet "trivirgata" means ‘three-striped’ in Latin. The small-toothed palm civet is mid-sized by the standards of its family, weighing 2.4 kg (5.3 lbs) and measuring 53 cm (21 in) long