Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kopi Luwak coffee beans also known as civet coffee come from the Asian palm civet, a catlike animal found in Indonesia. Carola ...

BANGKOK, Thailand — Perhaps you’ve heard of “kopi luwak,” the world’s priciest coffee. And perhaps you know its main claim to notoriety: The drink is brewed from beans swallowed and excreted by civets ...

Last weekend, I was enjoying a leisurely café lunch when I spotted a $25 cup of coffee on the menu. That’s right, cup. My husband said he had asked about it on his last visit and was told it was made ...

Coffee beans harvested from the faeces of the Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) may have higher levels of fats and other key flavour-enhancing compounds than traditionally harvested beans.

From upper left to lower right: binturong, masked palm civet, common palm civet, and small-toothed palm civet. These four species share similar ecology such as nocturnal, semi-arboreal, and frugivory.

“Brown palm civets carry seeds away from under the parent trees and defecate them virtually undamaged, with seed germination viability being retained or even enhanced in some species,” write the study ...