Mongoose

Mongooses (Herpestidae) are a family of about 30 species of small carnivorans from southern Eurasia and mainland Africa. Four additional species from Madagascar in the subfamily Galidiinae, which were previously classified in this family,...

In this article: Meerkat, Egyptian Mongoose, Viverridae, Common Dwarf Mongoose, Venom, Africa, Madagascar, Civet, and Chicken

...bills. It is thought that the end for these birds was heralded by the arrival of Captain Cook, in 1778, who brought rats, cats, mongooses and birds carrying avian malaria. But Dr Groombridge is also interested in the part played by...

In this article: Endangered species, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Hawaii, Seychelles Kestrel, Avian malaria, and Malaria

...and Italy. It prefers to live in forests, savanna, or scrub, never far from water. The largest of all African mongooses, the Egyptian Mongoose has a body 48-60 cm long, and a 33-54 cm tail. It weighs 1.7-4 kg. The Egyptian Mongoose...

In this article: Egyptian Mongoose, John Greenleaf Whittier, Egypt, Visceral leishmaniasis, Snake venom, Christopher Smart, and Haverhill, New Hampshire

Gef the talking mongoose was a talking animal that was reported to inhabit a farmhouse known as Cashen's Gap near the hamlet of Dalby on the Isle of Man. Opinion is divided as to whether Gef was a poltergeist, a strange animal or cryptid, or...

In this article: Dog, Reginald Pocock, Cecil Levita, and Isle of Man

...this native ground-nesting seabird was reportedly in danger of extinction by the 1930s, primarily due to introduced predators such as mongoose, cats and rats. Although the shearwater population was estimated at 84,000 in the mid-1990s,...

In this article: Hawaii, O'ahu, Moorhen, Humpback Whale, Endangered species, Waimea Valley, and Culprit

The Small Asian Mongoose (Herpestes javanicus), also known as the Indian Mongoose, Small Indian Mongoose, or the Javan Mongoose, is a species of mongoose found in the wild in South and Southeast Asia. It has also been introduced to various...

In this article: Small Asian Mongoose, Jamaica, Herpestes edwardsii, Invasive species, Litter, Okinawa Island, and Lana'i

...some physical resemblance to canids, they make up a separate biological family that is most closely related to Herpestidae (the family of mongooses and meerkats), thereby falling within the Feliformia. All species have a distinctly bear-like...

In this article: Hyena, Bronx Zoo, Brown Hyena, Striped Hyena, Spotted Hyena, Meerkat, and Paul Giamatti

...Russell nominated Lydia and Ronnie for eviction, telling Ronnie, "If you want to catch a snake, you gotta be a mongoose, and I'm that mongoose. " "I'm not just a snake, I'm a king cobra," Ronnie told the camera, "a nd many times the king...

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...you find you made a mistake with a biocontrol agent, you can't call it back." In one of the most infamous disasters, farmers introduced the mongoose to Hawaii in the late 1800s to control rats that were feeding on sugar cane. Rather than...

In this article: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Herbicide, Montana, Hawaii, New England, and Balance of nature

...ago, the first case was documented of a human disease, tuberculosis, emerging in free-ranging wildlife-in this instance, the banded mongoose. These animals are not in danger of going extinct and live across southern Africa in large numbers.

In this article: Mongooses, Banded Mongoose, National Geographic News, Southern Africa, and Botswana