mongoose

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• Mountain rhebuck, duiker, jackal, mongoose, porcupine and dassie now live in the Reserve.
• Is it what they call the mongoose, or monsoon, or something? Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose
• Small carnivores such as mongoose and crows pose a threat to the night heron chicks.
• ‘Compared to larger carnivores, the smaller species such as genets and mongooses are very poorly understood,’ said De Luca, ‘so one of our aims is to shed more light on this important and secretive group of animals.’
• The study of mongoose prey-killing techniques points to a highly efficient killing bite used on vertebrate prey, even in the least predaceous species.
• One of Three (which may be the father, son, or holy spirit, I haven't figured out which one) had this to say about the Fossa: It has retractable claws like a cat, walks on the soles of its feet like a wolverine, looks a bit like a jaguarundi, and has scent glands like a mongoose. What In Tarnation Am I?
• Now and then the mongoose, useful as a destroyer of snakes and rats, may be caught sight of, with his long coarse fur, running across the road, or hunting along a fence, much in the same way as a weasel shows himself in England, although the mongoose is a good deal larger. India and the Indians
• Other notable mammals include carnivores, such as leopard Panthera pardus, wild dog or dhole Cuon alpinus (VU), leopard cat Felis bengalensis, fishing cat F. viverrina (LR), Javan mongoose Herpestes javanicus and several civets, including binturong Arctictis binturong. Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia
• The pair compared data from studies covering 18 different species, including dwarf mongooses, meerkats, Florida scrub jays, western bluebirds, and Australian magpies.
• More common are species such as agouti (Dasyprocta agouti), fallow deer (Dama dama) to provide game, the indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) and the inadvertent importation of the black or roof rat and the brown or Norway rat (Rattus rattus, R. norvegicus). Leeward Islands dry forests