It has been listed in the List of Terrestrial Wild Animals Protected by the State or with Important Economic and Scientific Research Value issued by the State Forestry Administration of China on August 1 2000.
Life habits of civet cats
Civet cats usually sleep or lie still during the day except for eating, excreting feces and urine. Appear late and lazy. When sleeping, sometimes you sleep on your side, sometimes you sleep on your back, and sometimes you bend into a hemisphere. When many civets are together, they sleep in stacks. Civet cats have keen night vision. After 22 o'clock at night, civet cats become sensitive and full of energy, and begin to climb, play, find a mate, mate, feed and excrete, and continue until the early morning of the next day.
Civet cats are quiet, timid and frightened, and their hearing is sensitive. After being frightened, most of them are manifested as loss of appetite and sexual desire, food abandonment, dystocia, refusal to breastfeed, defecation, biting or swallowing young raccoons, etc. There are also a few civets who give off a very smelly smell after being frightened, and then escape into the nest box, trembling. When the stimulated factors have not disappeared, civets will lose their usual judgment and timidity, blindly rush out of the nest box and jump around, often hitting their heads and even dying of internal bleeding.
In winter, civet cats' sexual signs disappear completely, with rich coat, good luster, fat body, slow movement, slow response to the danger considered by light and peace, and obvious reduction in food intake. They stay in sleep all day and night except for a small amount of food and excretion, and hibernate to slowly consume the nutrients accumulated in autumn. Until the early spring, civets recovered and began to play, frolic and climb.