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African Palm Civet 12/3/90.

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Chlidonias
did African civets used to be common over there? I know that Jersey obviously had them and was breeding them as far back as the 1960s.
 
Nanook
Chlidonias said:
did African civets used to be common over there? I know that Jersey obviously had them and was breeding them as far back as the 1960s.
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Yes indeed they did. In actual fact there are many more Civet cats in general in private hands in the UK than in zoos these days.
 
sooty mangabey
This is actually just an African civet (Civettictis civetta) rather than an African palm civet (Nandinia binotata). Still a very nice animal, though!

I seem to remember they were kept in a cage that was only visible through another cage - possibly for patas monkeys - about where the squirrel monkeys and black-backed sakis are now.
 
TeaLovingDave
Nanook said:
Yes indeed they did. In actual fact there are many more Civet cats in general in private hands in the UK than in zoos these days.
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Indeed, though African Civet are few and far between even in private hands within Europe now.
 
Nanook
sooty mangabey said:
This is actually just an African civet (Civettictis civetta) rather than an African palm civet (Nandinia binotata). Still a very nice animal, though!

I seem to remember they were kept in a cage that was only visible through another cage - possibly for patas monkeys - about where the squirrel monkeys and black-backed sakis are now.
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Thanks Sooty. Do you remember also the Chimp cage which was similarly viewed through another almost, where it was double-wired with a gap in between - that type of enclosure looks awful to me. Thankfully that concept has gone from UK zoos (I think?).
 
Nanook
The photo was taken at a distance and cropped down to bring the animal closer to view, hence the poorer quality.
 

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