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The African Palm Civet is a kooky creature who lives in rainforest found across equatorial Africa which, to me, looks like a cattish kind of hyena/possum type thing. They need to live in forest areas where lots of fruit grows, because they dig on fruit, but they also hunt and scavenge for any kind of food. They are known to eat carrion
The African Palm civet is a mainly solitary creature, though its territory commonly overlaps with the territory of other civets. Interestingly (and very cutely), these civets sleep in groups; in a tree they build overlapping hammocks for snuggling up into. Territory is marked by the emission of a musk secreted through the many glands located throughout the civet's body.
The musk released by glands in the feet and face has been described as having a 'floral or fruity' smell'. (
animaldiversity.org/accounts/Nandinia_binotata/)
The glands of these animals have for many years been harvested for the purpose of distilling perfume
ICUN RED LIST - least concern.
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L Y R I C S
Well i stay up all nite - that's what i do
and no idon't like to fight unless i gotta
yeah well then i do!
I said I STAY UP ALL NITE!
see, i'm nocturnal
NO i never seen a sunrise
i'm just too nocturnal
And man i got this feelin' like i'm gonna stay awake
i wanna see the brand new shining day
and as i see my civet buddies slinkin' back to their comfy beds
I KEEP A GROOVIN' AHEAD!
Oh my god i wanna see the sunrise!
Pull the party into the daylight
I stand atop of this hill, now may the morning arise
I am a one of a kind!
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Sunrise - golden glow a magic sky
This is real - i'm still alive
I'm crying
I'm frightened...
Daylight rays, they start to hurt my eyes
shy away from the angry sky
its lain me down
I pull myself up off of the ground
and i turn around
and slowly
exhausted
i move back toward my home
to my bed
to sleep................
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But i'll back tonite - cause im a civet
ooh yeah,, we party all nite - AFRICAN PALM CIVET - yeah
I'm gonna eat up everything I can get my hands on
Ooh and i smell like a flower when i get my gland on
african palm civet.........................
JERRY THE CIVET'S MONOLOGUE
"Yeah we also go by the scientific name of Nandinia Binotata, but you can call me Jerry....
....speaking of science, y'all have a word that you call 'habitat'? Well that's where i live, and i tell you - me and my buddies would sure appreciate it if you would stop chopping the trees down and ruining the native wildlife - you know - you humans with your big brains and all, i'm sure could put them to a lot better use than the destruction and death and destroyin' the planet you know? i mean we animals, from the animal kingdom, we're very impressed. Don't get me wrong, we're very impressed with you're tremendous achievements, but still - i don't wanna die. do you wanna die? cause the way things are goin' we ALL GONNA DIE...come on..........say , you got the new i phone 5?, or is it i phone 6, its so hard to keep up these days when you're livin' in a forest that's being destroyed by companies like Apple. So they can get the rare gems or minerals required to make computers, phones, whatever the hell it is you people use....i think there's a certain irony in that. Can you see a certain irony? Or is it a tragedy? Yeah i think its more of a tragedy.
Any way - if you're ever around my way, come call on jerry
we'll party together
in the nite time
nite time
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released June 11, 2015
written by matt powell.
concept by Shaun Barley.
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