The civet picks the ripest coffee cherries because it wants to eat them, says Rocky Rhodes, president of International Coffee Consulting, based in Simi Valley, Calif.

The world's most expensive coffee can cost $600 a pound, and it comes from — there's no delicate way to put it — civet poop. But how do you know if what you're shelling out for is the real deal?

Civet traps, she says, amount to a “bamboo stick with pineapple at the top — civets love pineapple — and when they climb the sticks, a snare catches them around the waist.” ...

Civet cats are perhaps best known for the scrapings of their perineal glands, which produce a musky substance used in high-end fragrances. According to last month’s Pharmaceutical Journal, this ...

Civet coffee is one of the most expensive coffees in the world—a cup can cost up to $100. Coffee beans that have passed through the digestive tract of this cat-sized creature native to southeast ...

It’s the world’s most expensive coffee, and it’s made from poop. Or rather, it’s made from coffee beans that are partially digested and then pooped out by the civet, a catlike creature.A ...

In the civet coffee-producing hamlet known as Purok 8 in the village of Kinilis, a settlement of around 100 households separated from nearby Polomolok township by vast pineapple fields, there’s ...

The civet cat has a definite image problem. Nine months ago, the animals were banished as suspected spreaders of the SARS virus, only to be back on the menu after the outbreak subsided. Now they ...