Trail Cam Surprise: Has Question Mark found a New Mate?

Over the last few months I have collected thousands of trail camera clips at Huai Khayeng Nature Park. Just from the end of February until the 28th of March I got 422 clips featuring five different large-spotted civets on the land, and I have spent the last few days trying to make sense of them and lay down a story to explain what I think is happening. I would appear that a new male, that I have named Five Bar, has displaced our previous dominant male, Coco, to become Question Mark's mate. They were very busy together around the 14th and 15th of February. If it is true the large-spotted civets have a gestation time of 45 days, we might expect a birth around the start of May. Young civets feed exclusively on their mother's milk for the first two months and then start to forage for food with their mothers after that. This means that at the earliest, we might see a new kit or kits at the start of July... fingers crossed. Huai Khayeng Nature Park is a 35 hectare private rewilding and conservation project in the west of Thailand. We have gone from nothing but rock and ash in 2008 to a thriving regenerating forest today, and have three species of civet, leopard cat, and most importantly, Sunda pangolin living on the land. If you are interested in the conservation work that we do at Huai Khayeng Nature Park, please consider subscribing to the channel, and if you would like to become part of our project, why not join us as a supporter on our Buy Me a Coffee page: https://buymeacoffee.com/huaikhayengn... Equipment Browning Recon Force Elite HP5 Species List and Links to Further Information 0.00 Large-spotted Civet - Viverra megaspila (ชะมดแผงสันหางดำ) https://www.thainationalparks.com/spe...