{"id":30582,"date":"2025-03-05T01:06:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T19:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30582"},"modified":"2025-04-11T08:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T03:07:04","slug":"civet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/civet\/","title":{"rendered":"Civet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Civet Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A rare civet cat, typically found in the Seshachalam forests near Tirumala, was recently spotted near Tadepalli in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh.<\/p>\n<h2>About Civet<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is any of a number of <strong>long-bodied, short-legged carnivores<\/strong> of the <strong>family Viverridae.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Viverridae family includes civets, genets, oyans, and linsangs.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>There are about <strong>15 to 20 species<\/strong>, placed in 10 to 12 genera.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Civets are found in <strong>Africa, southern Europe, and Asia<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>8 different species<\/strong> of Wild civets found <strong>in India,<\/strong> out of which Common Palm civets and Small Indian civets can be spotted across the subcontinent.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>rarest <\/strong>of all civets <strong>is the Malabar large-spotted civet <\/strong>(Viverra civettina), also known as the <strong>Malabar civet, endemic to the Western Ghats.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is classified as <strong>\u2018Critically Endangered<\/strong>\u2019 under the IUCN Red List.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Civet Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Rather <strong>catlike in appearance,<\/strong> they have a <strong>thickly furred tail, small ears,<\/strong> and a <strong>pointed snout.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>coloration varie<\/strong>s widely among the species but c<strong>ommonly is buff or grayish <\/strong>with a pattern of black spots or stripes or both.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Length ranges from about 40 to 85 cm), with the tail accounting for another 13 to 66 cm, and weight ranges from 1.5 to 11 kg).<\/li>\n<li>Civets are <strong>usually solitary and live in tree hollows,<\/strong> among rocks, and in similar places, <strong>coming out to forage at night.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They feed on fruits and insects, opportunistically supplemented with small animals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Civet FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. In which national park is Malabar civet found?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Located in the Palakkad district of Kerala, Silent Valley National Park is one of the most important conservation areas for the Malabar Civet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is the IUCN status of Malabar civet?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Critically Endangered<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Is Malabar civet endemic to India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Malabar Civet is endemic to the Western Ghats in southern India.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/vijayawada\/rare-civet-cat-spotted-near-tadepalli\/articleshow\/118667441.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civet is any of a number of long-bodied, short-legged carnivores of the family Viverridae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}