Bornean Striped Palm Civet

A small, slender civet with three black stripes running down the length of a blackish-grey back — the only true striped (as opposed to spotted or banded) civet on Borneo, easily told from the Malay civet's spots and the banded civet's broad bands. Strongly arboreal, rarely coming to the ground, and most often detected high in fruiting fig trees at night.

Long treated as a subspecies of the mainland small-toothed palm civet (Arctogalidia trivirgata), but recent genetic work suggests Bornean populations form a distinct lineage, and this species is increasingly — though not yet definitively — treated as Borneo-endemic. Weight, gestation and litter-size figures sometimes quoted online come from studies of the wider mainland species and should not be presented as confirmed for the Bornean form. Among the least frequently recorded of Sabah's civets on standard night drives; treat any sighting as a rare, opportunistic one.