Title: Genette de l'Inde (Indian Civet) (Vietnam)
Description: Illustration of an Indian civet
Resource type: image
Source: Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology, Kansas City, MO,
Voyage autour du monde par les Mers de l'Inde et de Chine. Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1833.
Date: Retrieved July 27, 2006
Format: jpeg; 264KB; 1262x534
Resource identifier: www.lindahall.org/events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/voyages/laplace5.shtml

Description: A nocturnal mammal of the Old World family Viverridae, with a catlike body, a long tail,
and a weasel-like face. All civets have glands which produce civet, a fatty yellow substance with a
distinctive musky odor used as a perfume fixative.

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