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Rounding out the bottom five are killer bees, starlings, mountain pine beetles, brown tree snakes and Asian mongooses.

Dozens of species disappeared altogether including 17 giant lemurs three pygmy hippopotamuses two aardvarklike mammals a giant fossa (a catlike carnivore) eight elephant birds a giant crocodile and two giant tortoises.

Regular quarters The ring-tailed lemur's nemesis is the fossa a catlike mammal also found only in Madagascar.

Modern fossa get as large as fat housecats weighing in around 20 lbs. 9 kilograms.

An ancestral fossa that went extinct only a few thousand years ago likely also would have preyed on lemurs

So sugar-cane plantation owners brought over a group of mongooses to control the rat population. But nobody knew that the mongoose generally hunts during the day

and rats are primarily nocturnal according to the New york times. So while the rat population continued to soar the mongooses proceeded to destroy Hawaii's native bird and turtle populations.

And Florida's attempts at controlling another invasive snake the Burmese python have met with limited success. The state recently sponsored a much-ballyhooed Python Roundup with rewards offered for the biggest snake

The small portion of the wild animals in the leopards'diet consisted of mostly rodents as well as civets monkeys mongooses and birds.

Wild boars and mongooses are known to steal cobra eggs. The mongoose is the best-known enemy of the cobra.

Mongooses have thick fur to protect against cobra fangs and often defeat cobras in fights using their speed and agility.

They can bite the cobra s back before the snake can defend itself. Cobras are threatened also from other snakes and humans.

of which 10000 were made up of carnivores ranging from the large ones such as lion leopard spotted hyaena brown hyaena wild dog to the medium-sized such as honey badger jackal civet serval caracal

and the small ones such as African wild cat bat eared fox aardwolf common genet slender and banded mongoose.

#Scan Reveals If Your Civet Poo Coffee Really Comes From Civet Poo When you pay $150 to $230 for a pound of exotic coffee you want to know it's the real deal.

Now a team of chemists say they've developed a way to verify that beans labeled as civet coffee are authentic.

What is civet coffee and what makes it so expensive? Normally coffee farmers and processors pick the berries from their coffee trees remove the fruits'flesh from their seeds ferment the seeds

For civet coffee a cute Southeast Asian forest creature called the Asian palm civet helps out with some of these steps.

Civets selectively eat the best ripe coffee berries and their digestive tracts strip the fruit from the beans.

The civets then excrete the beans which civet coffee farmers gather wash ferment and roast.

Regular little Santa's helpers civets are! So. Civet coffee also known by its Indonesian name Kopi Luwak needs to be gathered by hand from civet poop making it rare

and labor-intensive to produce. That explains its priceã¢Â#Â as well as some coffee sellers'inclination to try to market non-civet-processed coffee as Kopi Luwak

or to cut true Kopi Luwak with regular coffee. Those scams inspired a team of Japanese

and Indonesian researchers to come up with a way to chemically distinguish regular coffee from civet coffee.

The researchers analyzed Kopi Luwak that they produced (presumably with civets in lab) as well as commercially sold Kopi Luwak and commercially sold regular coffee beans from different regions in Indonesia.

They used gas chromatography and mass spectrometry both techniques that tell chemists what molecules appear in a sample to conduct a metabolomic analysis of the coffees.

Perhaps the gastric juices and the microbes in the civet digestive system give beans a distinctive acid profile the researchers wrote in a paper they published in July in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Oh thank you thank you thank you Popsci on explaining exactly what is civet coffee is so I will never buy it in the future!!!

Look at my pet kinkajou my pet genet my pet fennec fox my pet ocelot. And then on the videos of cute furry animals in the wild you'll see the comments:

and bearcats have a tpã smell. CÃ Ã Â s: petrol smoke bat droppings bat caves some species of millipedes wild ginger roots

The primary predator of the lemurs is a catlike carnivorous mammal called a fossa native only to Madagascar that is closely related to the mongoose

Fossil evidence shows a cougar-sized relative of the fossa that only became extinct several thousand years ago likely preyed on lemurs as well she said.

The broadcasts also attracted a host of smaller predators including side-striped jackals black-backed jackals white-tailed mongooses and large spotted genets.

of which come from the feces of a Southeast Asian animal called a palm civet. Their study appears in ACS'Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Eiichiro Fukusaki and colleagues point out that Kopi Luwak (Indonesian for civet coffee) is the world's costliest coffee often fetching $150-$200 per pound.

Palm civets eat coffee berries digest the soft fruit surrounding the bean and excrete the bean. Workers retrieve the coffee beans

Seventeen percent of the leopard's diet consisted of assorted wild animals including rodents monkeys and mongoose and birds.

such as mongoose rats and domestic cats serve as unnatural predators and take a huge toll on native species

and mongoose lemurs that eat a mix of fruit leaves seeds flowers nectar and insects.

And ring-tailed lemurs and mongoose lemurs--who finished in second and third place in many of the memory tests--can grab a snack pretty much anywhere anytime Rosati explained.