The Masked Palm Civet is native to Himalayan South Asia and much of Southeast Asia. It has several subspecies over its range. Palm Civets are named after their tendency to drink palm sap, but they are omnivores eating insects, rodents, reptiles/amphibians as well as some friut. Masked Palm Civets have unspotted/unstriped coats with dark legs/feet and a variable black and/or white mask.

Here and below is the Sumatran White-masked Palm Civet, also, bizarrely, called the White-bearded, native to forests on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Some authorities give it full species status as P. leucomystx.

They are partly arboreal, mainly nocturnal and solitary.

They are endangered by habitat loss and the bushmeat trade and are also captured as pets.