WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY 
COMMON GENET {GENETTA) AND CIVET CAT 
( riVEEEICULA). 
Feed much the same as the ichneumon {Herpestes). As 
often as possible give breacl-and-milk, or boiled rice-and- 
milk, to keep them cool in hot weather ; because during 
the summer, from want of exercise, if fed too well they 
get fat, often mangy, and out of health. 
PALM-CIVETS (VIVEEEID.E PAEODOXINE). 
Easily kept. They require fresh meat raw or cooked, 
small birds, or mammals, bread-and-milk, boiled rice-and- 
milk, with sugar or honey. They will eat ripe fruit. 
BINTURONG (AECTICTIS). 
The animal appears to me to be a fruit and almost a 
vegetable feeder. Boiled rice with milk and sugar, honey, 
fruit, a little flesh raw, or better cooked, is the chief food 
of most of the individuals of the species I have met with. 
They are easily kept in confinement, and are mostly 
nocturnal in their habits. They must be kept warm. 
ICHNEUMON (HEEPESTES). 
Feed as the suricates, but perhaps more fond of living 
animals, which they enjoy to kill and suck the warm 
blood. 
SURICATES. 
These feed on the same kind of food as the Viverridm. 
They seldom eat fruit, but are fond of birds’ eggs and 
insects ; they must be kept rather short of food than omr 
fed, as they are very liable to fits in captivity. 
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