Asian palm civet its meat. The oil extracted from small pieces of the meat kept in linseed oil in a closed earthen pot and regularly sunned is used indigenously as a cure for scabies. Kopi Luwak is coffee prepared using coffee beans that have been subjected to ingestion and fermentation in the gastrointestinal tract of the Asian palm civet, which is called "luwak" in Indonesia. Caffeine content in both Arabica and Robusta luwak coffee is lower than in unfermented coffee. Large deformation mechanical rheology testing revealed that civet coffee beans are harder and more brittle in nature than their control counterparts indicating that
Otter civet be responsible for the current rarity of the otter civet. "Cynogale bennettii" is listed in CITES Appendix II. Otter civet The otter civet ("Cynogale bennettii") is a semiaquatic civet native to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. It is listed as "Endangered" because of a serious ongoing population decline, estimated to be more than 50% over the past three generations (estimated to be 15 years), inferred from direct habitat destruction, and indirect inferred declines due to pollutants. "Cynogale" is a monospecific genus. The otter civet possesses several adaptations to its habitat, including a broad mouth and webbed feet with naked soles