Animal That Eats Coffee Beans. This is a quite unnatural process and would never happen in the wild. After about 24 hours, the coffee beans are defecated by the civet cats.
Coffee beans, like coffee and caffeine in any form, should never be offered to cats. Made from the beans of coffee berries that have been eaten and excreted by the asian palm civet cat, this coffee, which is known as “kopi luwak” or “civet cat poop coffee,” can be found in cafés and coffee gardens in bali and elsewhere. This is a quite unnatural process and would never happen in the wild.
The most commonly reported side effects include:
Of course, the coffee beans of one type don’t taste the same as the other and the digestion of the palm civet isn’t capable of changing that. Kopi luwak coffee (civet coffee) kopi luwak coffee, (civet coffee in north america) is more informally called cat poop coffee. The civet, the same mammal that eats coffee beans without digesting them (making for a very expensive bag of coffee) is also a source of musky odor. After about 24 hours, the coffee beans are defecated by the civet cats.