Sulawesi palm civet

The Sulawesi palm civet, also known as the Sulawesi civet, musang or brown palm civet, is a little known viverrid endemic to Sulawesi and the only carnivoran native to the island. Its genus Macrogalidia contains no other species. It has a light brownish-chestnut soft short coat with many light hairs mixed in, underparts from fulvous to white, indistinct stripes and faint spots on the back, mixed brown and white whiskers and a ringed tail with a dark tip. Head and body length is about 89 centimetres with a 64 centimetre tail. It has been recorded in lowland forest, lower and upper montane forest up to 2,600 metres, grassland and near farms, though it does not appear to survive without tall forest. It is partly arboreal, apparently nocturnal and omnivorous, feeding on small mammals, fruit and grass. It is Vulnerable, with a decline of more than 30 percent over three generations inferred from habitat destruction.