Otter civet

The otter civet is a semiaquatic viverrid native to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei, recorded in Sumatra, Borneo and peninsular Thailand. Its genus, Cynogale, contains no other species. It has webbed feet suited to life in the water and long stiff whiskers that may help it forage. It prefers lowland primary forest and peat swamp forest but also occurs in secondary forest, and it was photographed in a Sarawak acacia plantation in 2005, in Sabah's Deramakot Forest Reserve between 2008 and 2009, and in central Kalimantan in 2009. It is nocturnal and takes most of its food from the water, feeding on fish, crabs and freshwater mollusks and sometimes climbing to take birds and fruit. Destruction of peat swamp forest for oil palm plantations and snares set for other animals threaten it, and it is Endangered and listed in CITES Appendix II.