07 May 2011

Masked palm civet

Masked palm civet   ID Correction: Common Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus)
I found this road kill while cycling on labour day
Local Name:  Musang Lamri Pulut
Musang Lamri,Masked palm civet
Location: Jalan Felda Krau 1, Raub, Pahang.

6 comments:

Ari said...

It's such a pity so see a beautiful and quite rare animal lost their life like that!

digdeep said...

I think this looks like the commoner Common Palm Civet.

Ghost said...

this the one that produce expensive kopi luwak

Anonymous said...

This one is Musang Pulut, if i'm not mistaken the one make kopi luwak is the tamer musang pandan... :p

S K Ditta said...

I am so sorry to see this sight! Such a beautiful animal!

Unknown said...

This is the animal that caused the outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong which became a pandemic, with 8,422 cases and 916 deaths worldwide.