Civet cat dung containing coffee and cocoa beans. Image: Paul Kennedy/Getty Images. While human beings love coffee beans in a liquid form, after being ground up and having water pressed through them…or perhaps covered in chocolate, civets would rather just snack on the delicious fruit of the berries, pooping out the beans as waste.

Civet Coffee is often also referred to as “Cat Poop Coffee”. This has partially given it a bad reputation because a few bad actors have mockingly ruined the …

Civet coffee is a special kind of coffee prepared from coffee beans that have been eaten, digested and defecated by the Asian palm civet cat (known in Indonesia as the luwak), a small cat-like mammal that enjoys eating ripe, luscious coffee cherries. The pooped-out coffee beans, protected by a thin parchment because digestion doesn’t destroy the bean’s tough outer husk, are then …

The answer is because civet coffee is in limited supply. The Asian palm civet. The most superior civet coffee derives from wild civets, but it can be difficult to follow these animals around to collect their droppings. So, to keep up with the demand civet-raising farms have developed.

However, here are some other different types of Animal Poop Coffee: CIVET CAT POOP COFFEE OR KOPI LUWAK. Kopi Luwak is known to be the most expensive coffee in the world. These comes from the feces of Civets cats belonging to the Veverridae Family mainly found in Asia with smaller extent of them found in Southern Europe and Africa.

Groups like the World Animal Protection organization campaign for retailers to stop the supply of this kind of coffee. It’s hard to say if these campaigns make a noticeable difference as there is currently no way of differentiating a bag of kopi luwak made from a wild civet vs coffee produced from a caged civet.

Kopi luwak is made from coffee beans plucked from civets’ feces. This is bad news for civets.

There are five different coffees in the world that come from the partially digested feces of animals. These are elephants, civets, monkeys, birds and bats. What’s more, these are some of the most expensive coffees that you can buy. The idea is that the animals select and eat the tastiest coffee cherries right from the tree.

Roasted coffee beans made from collecting the poop from the civet cat and picking out the beans. Called 'Kopi Luwak,' the beans can cost up to $400 a pound.