Arctictis is a genus of civet in the family Viverridae containing a single living species, the binturong, native to South and Southeast Asia including India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Indonesia and the Philippines. It has a thick coat of coarse black hair, a bushy prehensile tail and short stout legs suited to life in trees, and its musk glands emit an odor often compared to popcorn or corn chips. It is an omnivore eating plants, insects and smaller animals, is active at night and twilight, and is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List because of habitat loss and illegal hunting. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Classification
Living or Extinct Taxonomic Rank In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Asia, found in there.
Sources
1. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)
Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ19817059, descriptionView the Source 2. Binturong (Wikipedia)
Introduction
The binturong (Arctictis binturong) (; bin-TURE-ong, BIN-ture-ong), also known as the bearcat, is an arboreal viverrid native to South and Southeast Asia.
- Taxonomic rank (structure-wave classification, ruling 761/926)
View the SourceWikidata: Binturong
Wikidata Q213141, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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