The hog badgers were clean. The Chinese hares were clean. The Eurasian beavers were clean. The domestic cats were clean. Guan had also sampled six masked palm civets, which weren’t clean; all six carried signs of a coronavirus resembling SARS-CoV. In addition, the fecal sample from one raccoon dog (a kind of wild canid, which looks like an overfed fox with raccoon markings), tested positive for the virus. But the data overall pointed most damningly at the civet.
