Common Palm Civet, Gibbon WLS, Assam
July 5th, 2010

We had just finished sighting in the Gibbon and were walking back the trail looking around the thick Gibbon forest. There was another group of people who still wanted to see more of Gibbon and we were walking back slowly chatting to them. Our guide cum driver Konwar was just ahead of us looking around try to see if he could show us something more of the forest. On the top of a tall tree, she spotted something sitting on tree and we saw it through through the binocs, it was the civet. It was sitting still over a branch and was very much aware of us. There was a lot of shade there and it took us sometime to spot the civet sitting on a tree. I am amazed by the way Konwar was able to spot it. All very excited, we stood there observing it. The civet kept an eye on us too. It looked beautiful when a small ray of light hit it eyes. We were hoping that it would come closer somewhere but it never happened. Infact while we were just discussing something among ourselves, the civet had disappeared from the branch and was no where to be seen :)