binturong

NOUN
  1. arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair
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  • For these animals, as well as another 45 moon bears and 14 sun bears, 50 macaques, 30 gibbons, 10 crocodiles, 4 binturongs, and 200 dogs, Banglamung Wildlife Breeding Center is essentially a well-appointed refugee center.
  • Nocturnal animals, binturongs do most of their hunting at night, using their long whiskers as ‘tools’ for sensing food.
  • Roe noted that the agency also has received reports of other exotic animals being found throughout Pennsylvania, such as a binturong found on a Beaver County family's porch in 2002; an African serval, resembling a small cheetah, which had been illegally possessed and escaped from its Pittsburgh owner several times before being confiscated in 2001; and two wallabies that escaped from their owners in Ambler in 2001. Archive 2007-03-01
  • Their scent glands, located near their tails, are rubbed along branches as they walk or are deliberately rubbed against upright branches to deposit an oily musk as a signal to other binturongs.
  • Five endemic mammal species are considered vulnerable, including Acerodon leucotis, the Palawan treeshrew (Tupaia palawanensis), the Palawan stink badger (Mydaus marchei), the Palawan binturong (Arctictis binturong whitei), and a Sunda tree squirrel (Sundasciurus rabori). Palawan rain forests
  • HANNA: But the binturong, Larry, is in the mongoose family. CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2006
  • Other notable mammals include carnivores, such as leopard Panthera pardus, wild dog or dhole Cuon alpinus (VU), leopard cat Felis bengalensis, fishing cat F. viverrina (LR), Javan mongoose Herpestes javanicus and several civets, including binturong Arctictis binturong. Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia
  • Good pets, cats, dogs, things like that, not binturongs.
  • HANNA: Right, Larry, this is a binturong from Asia. CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2005
  • Other notable mammals include carnivores, such as leopard Panthera pardus, wild dog or dhole Cuon alpinus (VU), leopard cat Felis bengalensis, fishing cat F. viverrina (LR), Javan mongoose Herpestes javanicus and several civets, including binturong Arctictis binturong. Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia
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