Hose's palm civet, also called Hose's civet, is a viverrid endemic to the island of Borneo, known from a few localities in Sarawak and Sabah in Malaysian Borneo and in Brunei, and from Kalimantan. Oldfield Thomas named it in 1892 for the zoologist Charles Hose, who collected the first specimen in Sarawak in 1891. Little is known beyond 17 museum specimens, and the first living animal was obtained only in 1997 and released after two months. It has dark brown to blackish brown upperparts, white or brownish white underparts, dark rings round the eyes, very long white whiskers, partly webbed feet and a contrasting flesh coloured snout. It measures 472 to 540 millimetres in head and body length, weighs about 1.4 to 1.5 kilograms and is both crepuscular and nocturnal. It lives in lower montane and mixed dipterocarp forest and is listed as Vulnerable because of a continuing decline.
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Hose's palm civet (Diplogale hosei), also known as Hose's civet, is a viverrid species endemic to the island of Borneo.
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Hose's civet has been recorded in a few localities in Sarawak and Sabah in Malaysian Borneo, and in Brunei.
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Hose's civet has been recorded in a few localities in Sarawak and Sabah in Malaysian Borneo, and in Brunei.
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Hose's palm civet (Diplogale hosei), also known as Hose's civet, is a viverrid species endemic to the island of Borneo.
Lead, conservation status
It is listed on the IUCN Red List as Vulnerable because of an ongoing population decline, estimated to be more than 30% over the last three generations (inferred to be 15 years) and suspected to be more than 30% in the next three generations due to declines in population inferred from habitat destruction and degradation.
Distribution and habitat
Very few field sightings of the species were mainly in lower montane forest and mature mixed dipterocarp forest.
Ecology and behaviour
The Hose's civet is both crepuscular and nocturnal by nature and is thought to be of a more ground-dwelling nature than other viverrids.
Distribution and habitat, where it lives
Hose's civet has been recorded in a few localities in Sarawak and Sabah in Malaysian Borneo, and in Brunei.
Diet
The sole individual ever in captivity ate only meat and fish and not fruit, the preferred diet of all other viverrids in Borneo.
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Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of ZoologyPhysical Description, range mass
1.4 to 1.5 kg
Behavior, key behaviors
nocturnal
Conservation Status, CITES
CITES No special status
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