| Domestic dogs and cats can pick up the infection if exposed to wild animals with the disease such as foxes, wolves, jackals, skunks, mongooses, raccoons and bats. |
| The pair compared data from studies covering 18 different species, including dwarf mongooses, meerkats, Florida scrub jays, western bluebirds, and Australian magpies. |
| The most interesting part was when the lecturer talked about a character called William Bunting, who used to catch wild adders to feed to the mongooses at London Zoo. |
| All mongooses are members of a family of small to medium-sized carnivores called the Viverridae, which also includes civets and genets. |
| On land penguins also have a number of enemies which include leopards, caraculs, kelp gulls and mongooses. |
| The galliwasp is also killed by dogs, cats and mongooses, and by people who mistakenly consider it to be venomous. |
