The banded palm civet is a civet with dark bands across its back and stripes on its face. It is recorded in forests on Borneo and searches for food on the ground at night.
Its coat ranges from buff gray to reddish brown, with dark cross-bands on the back and stripes on the face. The tail is mostly dark brown and banded only near its base.
Researchers combined 70 camera-trap studies to examine Banded Civets across Southeast Asia. Records came from forest landscapes in Borneo, Sumatra, the Thai Peninsula, and the Malay Peninsula. The team compared regional detections with forest cover and other landscape conditions.
Camera detections were more common in regions with greater forest cover and declined where human population density was higher. Forest cover was the strongest single predictor of the species’ occurrence. In Borneo, researchers found detections in 13 of the 15 surveyed landscapes, while patterns varied across the wider region.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
Across Southeast Asian camera studies, Banded Civet detections increased with forest cover and decreased as human population density rose.