Sulawesi - GIS

Macrogalidia musschenbroekii first described by Schlegel, 1877, The Sulawesi palm civet is a rusty brown agouti color, with lighter undersides. They have faint brown spots on the sides and lower back, and their tail is heavily ringed. Their fur is very short and dense with a whorl of fur on their neck. They have 4 mammae. Once found in park Lore Lindu in 1999, with 130 centimetres long from head to tail and weighs 9 kilograms.

This civet is very shy and an acrobatic tree climber. They are believed to be arboreal, nocturnal, and solitary. Nothing is known about their reproduction.

The Sulawesi palm civet eats a variety of fruits, as well as rodents, birds,eggs, snails and scorpians.

The Sulawesi palm civet lives only on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. They inhabit lowland and mountainous forests up to about 2600 m. Unfortunately Palm civet is somewhat rare throughout its range, and is affected by deforestation.

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