Genets

While some biologists noted a vague superficial similarity with lemurs, most concluded that it was a viverrid: a member of the same carnivoran family as civets and genets*. ❋ Darren Naish (2007)

Nandinia is not close to civets and genets, but is in fact a basal feliformian (Flynn et al. 2005); oriental linsangs (Prionodon) are not viverrids, but in fact the sister-taxon to cats (Gaubert & Cordeiro-Estrela 2006, Gaubert & Veron 2003); and Madagascan carnivorans are also not viverrids, but closer to mongooses (Gaubert et al. 2005). ❋ Darren Naish (2007)

Similarly, faced with puzzlement about how many individuals there are in cases of vegetative or clonal “growth”, such as one finds in many plants, the biologist John Harper (1977) distinguished between ramets as individuals that originate through clonal growth, and genets as entities that begin as a seed or fertilized egg. ❋ Wilson, Robert A. (2007)

The dames and damsels vaulted on their barbs, and genets, and thorough-bred hacks, with such airy majesty; they were absolutely overwhelming with their bewildering habits and their bewitching hats. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)

Those horses must have been Spanish genets born of mares fecundated by a zephyr, for they were fleet as the wind itself, and the moon, which had just risen at our departure to light us on the way, rolled over the sky like a wheel detached from her own chariot. ❋ Th��ophile Gautier (1841)

The envisaged causes for this strategy are sperm dispersal, a strong selection against the mating of genetically related individuals to avoid inbreeding depression or high longevity of genets combined with stochastic recruitment events by larvae from other populations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On envoya chez lui des genets pour apporter les présens; et, pour sa monture ainsi que pour sa suite, les chevaux qu'avoient laissés à la porte du palais ceux des grands qui étoient venus faire cortège au roi pendant la cérémonie. ❋ Richard Hakluyt (1584)

Breeder of fennec foxes, genets, pied crows, toucans, and investment quality reptiles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The animals included meerkats, ferrets, genets, mongoose, and lions as well as the pandas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Glaser carried out taste tests on lions, ferrets, genets, meerkats, mongoose, and red pandas living in Swiss zoos. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When the Berbers entered Spain, they brought with them the architecture and material culture of their North African roots, but they also brought with them some useful animals as well -- camels, genets, and the mongoose. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Generations of genets, a spotted relative of the mongoose, have made their homes in the rafters of the main hall. ❋ Unknown (2008)

On envoya chez lui des genets pour apporter les pr閟ens; et, pour sa monture ainsi que pour sa suite, les chevaux qu’avoient laiss閟 � la porte du palais ceux des grands qui ❋ Unknown (2003)

In the forest lived the birds and animals of Mariamu’s fables: casqued hornbills, which wrestled with their ivory beaks; sly vervets and black-and-white colobus monkeys, which the Kikuyu thought of as children of God; duikers small antelopes and bushbuck, genets and serval cats. ❋ Virginia Morell (1995)

African cibet and the Chinese and Indian zibet, yield), including the hyaena civet from the Cape of Good Hope: genets and ichneumons, which will be found on the lower shelves; and the Mexican house-marten. ❋ W. Blanchard Jerrold (1855)