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
Hose's palm civet The otter civet is known to be semiaquatic and has webbed feet; it occurs mainly in lowland rain forest. Hose's palm civet Hose's palm civet ("Diplogale hosei"), also known as Hose's civet, is a viverrid species endemic to the island of Borneo. It is listed on the IUCN Red List as Vulnerable because of an ongoing population decline, estimated to be more than 30% over the last three generations (inferred to be 15 years) and suspected to be more than 30% in the next three generations due to declines in population inferred from habitat destruction and degradation. "Diplogale" is a