Family NANDINIIDAE (AFRICAN PALM CIVET)

• Small mammals with small ears, heavily-built body, short legs, and tail longer than the head and body; dark brown in color and with a pair of bright scapular spots.

• 71-139 cm.

• Tropical Africa.

• Rain and deciduous forests, from coastal to montane, also savannah woodlands.

• 1 genus, 1 species, 4 taxa.

• No species threatened; none Extinct since 1600.