Although the civets and the foussa have retractile claws they do not show the perfection exhibited in this feature in the cat family.
Related to them, but very different in every way are the many species of ichneumons and civets (family Viverridae) of the same parts of the world.
Civets are on a lower level of specialisation than are the Cats.
THE AARD-WOLF This is such a very odd animal that it has been placed in a family all by itself, though there can be no doubt that it is related to the civets on the one side and to the hyenas on the other.
The true civets have much stouter bodies than the fossa.
The civetshave no less than forty, and the grinders, instead of having cutting scissor-like edges, are cuspidate, or crowned with tubercles.
Civets belong to the family Viverridae and are found only in Asia and Africa.
We had two sizes of wooden "Out of Sight" for mice and rats, and four or five sizes of Oneida steel traps for catching medium sized animals such ascivets and polecats.
On the third morning we found two civets in the traps.
Besides civetsand polecats, we caught mongooses, palm civets, and other carnivores.
Except for weasels we saw no others and the hunters said that foxes or civets did not occur on this side of the mountain even though food was abundant.
The Civets are the largest of this family, although they are not often larger than a Fox.
The Civets are the best known of the family classed as the Viverridae which comprises not only the two kinds of Civets—the African and the Indian Civet—but the Mangousts, the Genets and many small relatives.
Civets are characterized by the possession of a deep pouch in the neighbourhood of the genital organs, into which the substance known as civet is poured from the glands by which it is secreted.
Fossil remains of extinctcivets are found in the Miocene strata of Europe.
The single representative of the genus Viverricula resembles in many respects the genets, but agrees with the civets in having the whole of the under side of the tarsus hairy; the alisphenoid canal is generally absent.
Here may be placed the two African spotted palm-civets of the genus Nandinia, namely N.
These two species of civets have not been distinguished with precision.
The civets are naturally wild, and even ferocious; and though tameable to a certain degree, they are never perfectly familiar.
The perfume of the civets is so strong that it communicates itself to all parts of the body; the hair and skin is impregnated with it to such a degree, that it preserves the odour for a long time after it is stripped off.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
