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Mongoose PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: The small Indian mongoose, Herpestes auropunctatus, was first introduced into the West Indies in the 1870s and to the Hawaiian Islands in the 1880s. It was brought to Hawaii in an attempt to control rats in the sugarcane plantations. Mongooses have long bodies, short legs and small rounded ears placed on the side of the head. Their tails average half to three-quarters their body length. Males are slightly larger than females. Mongooses have a lar ...

Mongoose Herpestes nyula Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" was a mongoose, and the best known species is definitely the Indian mongoose. They are rather small, agile, weasel-like carnivores native to Africa, southern Europe, and Asia. The mongoose lives near streams, in thickets, hedges, and fields feeding on rats, mice, snakes, lizards, eggs, and insects. The Indian mongoose is renowned for killing cobras, which it is capable of doing due to its very quick mo ...

Mongoose The mongoose lives in savannah woodlands, hiding in hollow trees and termite hills. There are several species common in Kenya. Their sizes range from the tiny dwarf mongoose only one foot long, to the large gray mongoose, up to 4 feet long. The dwarf mongoose is reddish brown with a short tail. They live in dry savannah moving in packs of up to 15 hunting for small rodents, reptiles, and birds. The large gray mongoose is found in forests and along lakes and swamps. Anothe ...

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MONGOOSES Mongooses are small carnivores found in Africa and Asia. The mongoose subsists on rodents and snakes and is renowned for attacking even the largest and most poisonous snakes-to whose poison they are not immune-by an agile avoidance of their strikes. Back to Contents Page