@luckies4me: I'm sorry, but I've posted exactly the information that was given to us on tv. Meanwhile I found an article on the net, from the same tv station, saying that "cat" isn't really the correct name for a civet.
Thanks for the links!

@bisi.cat: It was on SAT1-Videotext yesterday, and I've found two articles (German) today on sat1.de:

http://sat1.de/nachrichten/service/g...p/U/Z/1/A/A/c/
http://sat1.de/nachrichten/service/g...v/D/l/1/1/u/M/

Kirsten