What what what! What is this guy! And what is he eating. EVERYTHING WAS SQUEE AND NOTHING MADE SENSE.
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Don’t know, but he’s cute
Is it maybe a civet? They eat coffee berries, and then people make coffee out of their poop and sell it for the price of a yacht.
Poop coffee? Ewwwwwwww.
its well true. i like civets, especially african ones. it appears to be some civet, but i’m not sure
i dunno what he is.. but i’m pretty sure he’s eating coffee beans 8)
same face and feet:
http://sharing.myfoxdfw.com/sharewono//photo/2010/04/20/civet_20100420113839_320_240.JPG
same tree:
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/galleries/2008/fsb/0807/gallery.most_expensive_foods.fsb/images/civet_coffee.jpg
Katy is correct. Yay for Katy
Hey! That something is in the process of making you the most expensive coffee in the world! Show some respect
Doesn’t look patterned enough for a civet
It looks like a chupacabra!
more like a cute-acabra.
I think it’s called a cope luac or something like that. I think tha’ts the little bugger who poops out the coffee beans to the most expensive coffee in the world. I know gross right?
I’m glad we can’t afford the most expensive coffee in the world !
nah cope luac is the coffee that they make from coffee beans the creature has pooped out. its a civet
Kopi luwak, if anyone’s interested in the spelling. As you were!
Well, the coloring doesn’t look a lot like the civets I’ve seen/seen pictures of… but it does seem to be eating what looks like coffee berries… so I suppose I’ll assume it’s a civet just so I don’t spend the rest of the day wondering.
It’s Kopi Luwak and it’s DELICIOUS!!!!
Adorable civet, btw.
Be proud that you are brave enough to drink fecal coffee
Yep, Kopi Luwak is the name of the coffee…. named after this fuzzy-wuzzy whatsit, a kind of Sumatran civet called a Luwak:
http://www.animalcoffee.com/luwak.php
For any Futurama fans out there, the origin of Kopi Luwak beans is somewhat analogous to the origin of Slurm. (Except they start out as plain ol’ coffee beans, and become “special” after emerging half-digested from the business end of this cuddly li’l dude.)
Dunno about sipping a Kopi Luwak — even if I could afford it! — but I’d definitely love to give this squeeable civet a friendly scratch behind the ears.
So this guy is like the Slurms McKenzie for coffee?
Actually, more like the Slurm Queen for coffee:
http://theinfosphere.org/Slurm_Queen
But yeah, you got the general idea….
that animal is a Civet. its pronounced sivet. it eats the best coffee beans off the tree but it doesnt digest them. ppl then go out and collect civet (pardon me) poop and make coffee out of the beans they find in it. i heard that its REALLY good coffee. YES THEY WASH OFF THE BEANS!!!!1!1!!
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It looks like a animal called “Tasmanian Devil” (German: Tasmanischer Teufel, don’t know if the translation to English is correct). Is it the same as a Civet?
No, Tasmanian Devil is a marsupial, but yes interesting that yes they do look similar. Funny how the marsupials evolved separately to fill the same kind of evolutionary roles that mammals did in other parts of the world, and in this case, looked kind of similar…but usually completely different!
Marsupials are mammals
So…they make sh*tty coffee? I’d like to see that on the board at Starbuck’s…Cute little guy, anyway.
Kopi Luwak. I think Starbucks does sell it.
Ask for it by name!
No, they don’t sell it. (I worked there for 5 years.) It costs something like $200 for a 1/4 lb. Even S’bucks is not that snooty.
And the beans do not come out in a pile of poo, they are the only thing excreted and then they are cleaned and roasted, so all traces of fluids and other things are gone.
Well, depends on what you consider “a pile of poo”. Here’s what Kopi Luwak beans look like in their, uh…. natural state:
http://www.animalcoffee.com/proddetail.php?prod=Nat1
“This coffee smells like $h!t!”
“It is $h!t, Austin.”
“Oh, good. Then it’s not just me. *sips*”
The luwak’s gastrointestinal juices leech the bitterness out of the bean. The coffee is quite delicious. My husband gets me some each birthday.
Although, the process of the coffee sounds a little off-putting, you can be sure that there are more contaminants in a fast food burger than there are in this coffee.
Hey, I know they sell it at my local McDoanlds-
I don’t know what he is but he’s eating coffee beans. The beans are the pits of the red fruit. The fruit is washed of, sometimes used for livestock feed, the pits are cleaned and roasted, and voila – coffee beans.
Sorta makes you wonder who was the first person who saw those ‘droppings’ and said, “Hey now, that might taste good!” ….
Or maybe they just laughed to themselves and said, “Hey now, we could sell this to rich people if we can make them believe it’s special!”
Yeah you do wonder how some of these things come about!
Absolutely
Scratch behind the ears…Yes! Kopi-coffee…..Pass!
“Kopi-coffee…..Pass!”
That’s what the civet thought, too…
Ba-da-chum!
Isn’t it funny how expensive coffee is from a critters poop and expensive perfumes are from whale barf? Rich people are silly
Yeah, but what Just Vern said is completely correct. The shells of the beans are what gets digested, and the hydrochloric acid in the luwak’s stomach leechess the bitterness from the beans to change the flavor.
Then, the actual beans are excreeted and collected. The beans are sanitized and probably boiled after collecting, and then get packaged and shipped off to coffee companies. We all know what happens after that.
I thought it looked like a baby coon eating muskadine grapes!
Looks just like a young civet… Probably why it’s extra fuzzy-cute and has no spots/stripes/markings. That would be my guess.
It’s a civet!
Looks like a Fox Bat
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Sorry, it was oil they made, Argan oil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argan_oil