Small-toothed palm civet

The small-toothed palm civet, also known as the three-striped palm civet, is a viverrid of dense forests from Northeast India through mainland Southeast Asia to Borneo, Sumatra and Java. Its genus Arctogalidia has one species, the name meaning bear-weasel from ancient Greek, and the epithet trivirgata meaning three-striped. John Edward Gray described it in 1832 from a specimen from the Maluku Islands. The animal is blackish grey with black paws and three black longitudinal stripes on the back that appear as rows of broken spots, a tawny buff coat, a brown muzzle with a white streak, and a long tubular fluffy tail. The body measures about 53 centimetres with a tail of 58 centimetres and a weight of 2.4 kilograms. It is solitary, arboreal, nocturnal and omnivorous, eating insects, small mammals, nesting birds, fruits, frogs and lizards. Deforestation threatens it, and it is listed as Least Concern with a decreasing population.