During the cold nights of February up to the drizzly month of May, the woods fringing the coffee farms of the highland town of Indang in Cavite come to life when everyone else are asleep.
Palm civets,which have a broadly cat-like appearance with pointed snouts that inhabit the lush thickets of the Cavite highlands,clamber down from their lofty habitat atop coconut trees to forage on their favorite seasonal treat- raw,ripe berries of coffee trees that abound during that period.
Called Alamid locally,this omnivorous,long tailed mammal that is 700-mm-long and weighs up to five kilos,counts the red coffee berries as part of its normal diet.The Alamid,which is a nocturnal creature that sleeps atop coconut fronds during daytime,eats the berries at night, but the beans, which have absorbed stomach enzymes,pass through its system undigested.
Couple Eleuterio and Nenita Balidio of Barangay Kayquit,one of Indang's 36 Barangays,three kilometers south of the poblacion,rise at daybreak to trek across the dense brush ten kilometers away away to gather the bracelet like civet dung scattered along river banks and streams that is
embedded with undigested coffee beans. Civets, when they have a fill of their favorite food drink from the numerous waterways that crisscross the water-rich town 30 minutes away from the resort city of Tagaytay in the south.
Experts have proposed that enzymes in the stomach of the civet add to the coffee's flavor by breaking down the proteins that give coffee its bitter taste. The beans are defecated in bracelet-like form then washed, and lightly roasted so as not to destroy the complex flavors that develop through the process.
Palm civets,which have a broadly cat-like appearance with pointed snouts that inhabit the lush thickets of the Cavite highlands,clamber down from their lofty habitat atop coconut trees to forage on their favorite seasonal treat- raw,ripe berries of coffee trees that abound during that period.
Called Alamid locally,this omnivorous,long tailed mammal that is 700-mm-long and weighs up to five kilos,counts the red coffee berries as part of its normal diet.The Alamid,which is a nocturnal creature that sleeps atop coconut fronds during daytime,eats the berries at night, but the beans, which have absorbed stomach enzymes,pass through its system undigested.
Couple Eleuterio and Nenita Balidio of Barangay Kayquit,one of Indang's 36 Barangays,three kilometers south of the poblacion,rise at daybreak to trek across the dense brush ten kilometers away away to gather the bracelet like civet dung scattered along river banks and streams that is
embedded with undigested coffee beans. Civets, when they have a fill of their favorite food drink from the numerous waterways that crisscross the water-rich town 30 minutes away from the resort city of Tagaytay in the south.
Experts have proposed that enzymes in the stomach of the civet add to the coffee's flavor by breaking down the proteins that give coffee its bitter taste. The beans are defecated in bracelet-like form then washed, and lightly roasted so as not to destroy the complex flavors that develop through the process.
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