The increased demand for civet coffee has fueled civet poaching and smuggling. If we can recreate similar fermentation in a ...

Kopi luwak is a kind of coffee you probably haven't tried before. It's definitely not the type of coffee you can order from your local Starbucks or find in your neighborhood supermarket, in part ...

Kopi Luwak coffee beans also known as civet coffee come from the Asian palm civet, a catlike animal found in Indonesia. Carola Frentzen/dpa Bali's coffee gardens are the perfect place to relax, where ...

It has been described as nutty, chocolatey, earthy and even fishy: a wildly expensive coffee that can sell for more than 100 times the price of regular brews, made from beans eaten and excreted by ...

Typically, closely related animal species have difficulty coexisting because they are competing for similar resources. Despite eating the same figs, binturong, small-toothed palm, masked palm, and ...

The world of specialty coffee includes a product known for its unique origin: Kopi Luwak. Also referred to as civet coff ...

Kopi Luwak, considered one of the world's finest coffee beans, is made from undigested coffee beans extracted from the feces of palm civets. New research has revealed that Kopi Luwak, known for its ...

If there’s one thing that coffee producers from the South Asian countries of India, Indonesia, and Philippines, among others, are excited by, it’s the sighting of fresh civet cat poop. Buried within ...

But amongst a growing group of coffee connoisseurs, theres one type of coffee that Indonesia is particularly famous for. Its the home of Kopi Luwak, or civet coffee. Infamous for its high price and ...

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.