GENEVA—Rare Chinese masked palm civet cats, a medicinal food animal in Southern China eaten to reduce the chance of winter infections like colds and flu, contain the coronavirus thought to cause ...

Sometimes called the civet cat, the palm civet is a small, furry, wide-eyed mammal with a face a bit like a raccoon. In 2003, scientists identified palm civets as the animal that was most likely ...

The musangs, as the palm civets are also known ... among other things. "Some of the civet cats bite themselves or hurt themselves in other ways out of stress. Also, they pace around, which ...