Talk:Asian Palm Civet

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Mammals Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Mammals, a project to improve Wikipedia's articles on Mammal-related subjects. Please participate by editing the article, and help us assess and improve articles to good and 1.0 standards, or visit the wikiproject page for more details.
Start	This article has been rated as start-class on the quality scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.
Assessment comments This article has been rated for quality and/or importance but has no comments yet. If appropriate, please review the article and then leave comments here to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article and what work it will need.

This article was nominated for deletion on Jan 2 2005. The result of the discussion was No Consensus. An archived record of this discussion can be found here.

Some sources refer to a "Chinese Lesser Civet" or "Small Chinese Civet", labeled Viverricula indica pallida. A-giau 20:42, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Viverricula indica itself is known as "small Indian civet", also found in southern China. A-giau 21:10, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The latin name for the Asian Palm Civet is "Paradoxurus hermaphroditus". Hermaphroditic Paradox? WTF? Does anyone know the history behind this name?

Just found it! Apparently, the common palm civet has large secretory glands near its anus, and they look a lot like testes. Both genders have them, so that explains the "hermaphroditus" part. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.165.147.95 (talk) 06:22, 27 December 2007 (UTC)