civet cats are thought to be responsible for the sars outbreak.
Spotted linsang Prionodon pardicolor Hodgson, 1841
It is distributed from east of Nepal to Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh (Pocock 1939, Choudhury 1997a,b, 1999, Datta 1999, Jha 1999) eastwards to Myanmar, southern China, Thailand, Laos PDR, Vietnam, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and Borneo (Pocock 1939, Medway 1978, Corbet & Hill 1992).