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The Large Indian Civet (Viverra zibetha) is generally a grizzled greyish brown, with white and black bars along their neck (usually two white stripes and three black stripes), stripes on the tail, and a white muzzle. The hair on their back is longer. Their claws are retractable. They have hair in between their paw pads.
Indian civet ranges from Indochina
Indochina

Indochina, or the Indochinese Peninsula, is a subregion in Southeast Asia. It lies roughly east of India, south of China.The word has French origins, Indochine, and was adopted when French colonizers in Vietnam began expanding their territory to bordering countries....
 to China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
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The Large Indian Civet (Viverra zibetha) is generally a grizzled greyish brown, with white and black bars along their neck (usually two white stripes and three black stripes), stripes on the tail, and a white muzzle. The hair on their back is longer. Their claws are retractable. They have hair in between their paw pads.

Habitat

The Indian civet ranges from Indochina
Indochina

Indochina, or the Indochinese Peninsula, is a subregion in Southeast Asia. It lies roughly east of India, south of China.The word has French origins, Indochine, and was adopted when French colonizers in Vietnam began expanding their territory to bordering countries....
 to China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
. It can be found in the countries of Nepal, Bangladesh, the Malay peninsula, and Vietnam.

Food

The Indian civet is mostly carnivorous. They will eat birds, frogs, snakes, small mammals, eggs, crabs, and fish. They will also eat fruit and roots.

Social Behavior

The Indian civet is solitary
Solitary

Solitary may refer to:* shortened form of solitary confinement in jail* Solitary , an episode of the TV series Lost* Solitary , a reality show made by FOX...
 and nocturnal. They spend most of their time on the ground, though they are agile climbers. They spend much of their time during the day sleeping in burrows in the ground that have been dug by other animals and abandoned. They are territorial and mark their territories with excretions form their anal glands. Their territory can range from 0.6-2 mi sq (1.7-5.4 km sq).

Reproduction

Females breed at any time of the year, and generally have two litters a year. A litter usually consists of four young. They are born in a hole in the ground or dense vegetation. They open their eyes at 10 days and are weaned at one month old.

Subspecies



There are five subspecieshttp://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?s=y&id=14000270 1:

  • V. z. zibetha, found in Nepal
    Nepal

    Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia and is the world's youngest republic. It is bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by India....
    , Bhutan
    Bhutan

    The Kingdom of Bhutan is a landlocked nation in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalaya Mountains and is bordered to the south, east and west by India and to the north by the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China....
    , upper Bengal
    Bengal

    Bengal , is a historical and geographical region in the northeast of South Asia. Today it is mainly divided between the independent sovereign nation of the Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal in India, although some regions of the previous kingdoms of Bengal are now part of the neighboring Indian states of Bihar, Assam, Tripura and Oris...
    ;
  • V. z. picta, found east of Assam
    Assam

    Assam ) is a North-East India state of India with its capital at Dispur, in the outskirts of the city Guwahati. Located south of the eastern Himalayas, Assam comprises the Brahmaputra and the Barak River river valleys and the Karbi Anglong District and the North Cachar Hills with an area of 30,285 square miles ....
    ,
  • V. z. ashtoni,
  • V. z. hainana, described just in 1983 by Wang and Xu,
  • V. z. pruinosus.
In 1997 Sokolov, Rozhnov & Pham Trong Anh described new species as Viverra tainguensis know from Tainguen Plateau in Gialai Province in Vietnam
Vietnam

Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....
. Today research DNA confirm that be comprises the schedule of genes Viverra zibetha picta subspecies.

Conservation

In Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
, it is a protected species
List of protected species in Hong Kong

List of protected species in Hong Kong....
 under Wild Animals Protection Ordinance Cap 170..