Civet latrines in three habitats of a coffee dominated landscape of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot

Abstract Civets are frugivorous animals in the Order Carnivora. They are relatively less shy towards people and anthropogenic habitats. It has been reported that the civets’ preference of defecating in open sites enable them to be important seed dispersers of degraded forests and urban ecosystems of...

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Main Authors: Palatty Allesh Sinu, P. P. Fahira, T. P. Rajesh, Gopika Viswan, K. Manoj, M. Hariraveendra, Thomas Jose
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-12-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50193-2