Nandinia binotata
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Nandinia binotata |
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Nandinie |
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Tree civet |
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Length: about 100 cm (with a tail of 50 cm); weight: around 2 kg. Legs are short and with sharp claws. Head is rounded. Coat is woolly, off-white grey tinted with chestnut and marked with dark spots arranged in rows. There is a characteristic white or yellow spot on each side below the top of the shoulder. Stomach is greyish. Tail is long and marked with 12 black rings. |
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In Katanga, can be seen in the pluvial forests of the west of the province, and more rarely, in gallery forests or in wooded savannah. |
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Nocturnal and mainly solitary. Territorial and mainly arboreal. During the day, rests and hides among branches, lianas, or in hollow trees. It is an excellent climber and leaper. It forages about in trees. It produces many smells that are used for different purposes. Along the midline of the lower abdomen, there is a slit through which a strong-scented secretion is excreted. Between the 3rd and 4rth toes of each foot, there is a glandular pocket enabling the tree civet to mark the paths it uses.
Its call is a mewing. |
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Fruits, berries, rodents, termites, birds and eggs. |
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After about 64 days of gestation, females give birth to 1 to 4 young. |
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Sometimes attacks poultry. |
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Warning :
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The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed.
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