Civettictis civetta

Length: 68-95 cm (27-34")

Tail: 40-53 cm (16-20")

Weight: 7-20 kg (15-44 lb.)

Status: not endangered; widespread and common

Habitat: African civets are most abundant in forested and partly forested lands. They are also found around marshes. In savannas and plains they frequent wooded water courses where there is sufficient cover. They like broken gullied land too.

Role: carnivore

Food: Civets are omnivorous. They eat a wide variety of plants and animals. Included in their diet are vegetables, roots, fruits, berries, rodents, newborn antelopes, snakes, frogs, insects, centipedes, scorpions and carrion.

Predators: Spotted hyenas and leopards are probably the civet’s greatest enemies next to humans. Dogs also present a threat.