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Owston's palm civet feeding (3)

Details in the Forum. Newquay, 28th September 2014.
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A gorgeous shot of a gorgeous species :) when one considers how little known the taxon was until recently, it is very pleasing to see Newquay having such success in breeding and keeping the species.

I do think that Hemigalus and Chrotogale should be merged, though - considering the two species found within said genera differ more or less only in the markings found on the limbs of the latter and details of the neck fur, I suspect they merit being classed as congeneric.
 
Thank you. The light was poor, so I took a lot of photos to improve my chances of getting a few decent ones.

Alan
 
Always a good tactic with a species as special as this; certainly I did the same for several taxa at Zoo Magdeburg, including the Marbled Polecat and Golden Jackal.
 

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