Large Indian Civet

Viverra zibetha Linnaeus 1758

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Viverra zibetha (Large Indian Civet) is a species of mammal in the family viverrids. It is listed as near threatened by IUCN. It is found in the Palearctic and the Indo-Malayan Realm. It is an omnivore.

URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/nearThreatened
Definition: A taxon is Near Threatened when it has been evaluated against the criteria but does not qualify for Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable now, but is close to qualifying for or is likely to qualify for a threatened category in the near future.
Attribution: http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/categories-and-criteria

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URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q106447

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URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/IndoMalayan
Attribution: Udvardy, M. D. F. (1975). A classification of the biogeographical provinces of the world. IUCN Occasional Paper no. 18. Morges, Switzerland: IUCN

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URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q164509
Definition: organism consuming a variety of foods, usually including both plants and animals

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EOL has data for 42 attributes, including:

first appearance
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilFirst
- Definition: The first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
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0.781 million years ago
habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
- Definition: The organism inhabits this environment or ecoregion.
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savanna
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000261
- Definition: A grassland of the tropics or subtropics with scattered trees.
- Comment: Ontology Description: http://environmentontology.org/ Ontology Source: http://envo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/envo/envo.owl
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last appearance
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilLast
- Definition: The last appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
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Upper Pleistocene Age
- URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/UpperPleistocene
- Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
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motility
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33596
- Definition: ability to move spontaneously and actively, consuming energy in the process
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actively mobile
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/activelyMobile
- Definition: Organisms that move habitually, of their own volition.
- Attribution: http://paleodb.org/public/tips/ecology_tips.html
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trophic level
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TrophicLevel
- Definition: The position an organism occupies in a food chain.
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omnivore
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q164509
- Definition: organism consuming a variety of foods, usually including both plants and animals
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Large Indian Civet includes 7 children:

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