VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

TODDY CAT

Toddy cat (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus)

• Also called as ‘Common palm civet’
• Black or blackish brown civet with long coarse hair.
• Limbs are always black or dark brown in colour.
• White patch is present below the eye, some times one above it and one on each side of the nose.
• This animals are abundant in well-wooded regions
• Lives on trees, lying curled up by day among the branches or in a hole in the trunk.