The Mongoose Lemur is not a mongoose at all, but a prosimian primate, a species of monkey and native only to Madagascar. |
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We've got bushbuck, blue duiker, grey duiker, spotted genet, four species of mongoose and then vervet monkeys. |
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Six of the animals tested were masked palm civets, which look like long-nosed cats but are related to the mongoose. |
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Some experts now divide this large, diverse family into two, with the mongoose, meerkat and cusimanse in the Herpestidae Family. |
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Mountain rhebuck, duiker, jackal, mongoose, porcupine and dassie now live in the Reserve. |
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Small carnivores such as mongoose and crows pose a threat to the night heron chicks. |
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While watching Raf's thin frame, focused eyes, and slinky movements, I realized that he reminded me of a mongoose. |
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The main suspect to date is the civet cat, a cat-like mammal closely related to the mongoose. |
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The possible ecological significance of the different activity time of the ruddy mongoose has not been studied. |
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Significant mammal records include the yellow-bellied weasel and the crab-eating mongoose, both regarded as rare and in need of conservation. |
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The Egyptian mongoose is mainly nocturnal, although it sometimes hunts during the day. |
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Later, there was a fight between a mongoose and a 6ft-long fer de lance. |
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When it comes to mating, the banded mongoose likes to keep things in the family. |
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So, why would a species like the banded mongoose favor breeding between relatives? |
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Yellow Mongoose dens are usually disused burrows left by other animals such as antbears or spring hares which the yellow mongoose then expand considerably. |
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All carnivorous mammals of the family Viverridae including, but not limited to, civet, mongoose, and genet. |
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We have birds and mammals here such as the slender mongoose and large spotted genets that are not rare, but it's still nice to have them in a city like Johannesburg. |
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Some others like the wild pig, the palm civet, the common mongoose, the golden oriole, and the rat snake can survive even with little green cover and withstand disturbances. |
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This work shows that five marsupials, two hedgehogs, a shrew, a mole, four mongoose, a raccoon, two mtistelids, and 15 rodents have some form of resistance to venom toxins. |
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There are two carnivorous mammals: the Caffre cat, a small feline predator, and the ichneumon, or Egyptian mongoose. |
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There are many examples: the rabbit in Australia, mongoose in Hawaii, zebra mussel in the Great Lakes, just to name a few. |
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The slow-moving two-toed sloths, tiny dwarf mongoose, South American acouchi and African rock hyrax are other unique features of the daytime exhibits. |
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We did a conducted night drive and spotted many nocturnal small animals, including genet and mongoose, a barn owl up a tree eating a mouse and nightjars sitting on eggs. |
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For 10 years now, the wild banded mongoose population on the Mweya Peninsula in Queen Elizabeth National Park has been studied by behavioral biologists. |
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Suddenly a mongoose burst out of the bushes and made a break for it. |
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The ticks were collected from different animals including Egyptian mongoose, sheep, cow, dog, and vegetation. |
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An orange mongoose known as Mello was the mascot for the 2007 Cricket World Cup. |
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Predators of nests and young common ostriches include jackals, various birds of prey, warthogs, mongoose and Egyptian vultures. |
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Introduced mammals such as wild boar and the small Asian mongoose are also common. |
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With her mongoose stare, Streep chillingly recalls the PM's warrior persona, chainmail almost visible beneath the matronly blue as she smites the unions, the miners, the IRA, even the Argentine junta. |
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This is drying watercourses, shrinking marshes and decimating populatons of Iberian Lynx, otter, Egyptian mongoose and the genet. |
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Meerkats are mongoose mammals with slender bodies and limbs. |
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What is so special about the banded mongoose? |
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Comoros' main natural resource is biodiversity, as the islands and the sea around them are home to a number of rare or endemic species, such as the coelacanth, dugong, mongoose lemur and Comoros rousette. |
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Among the 28 mammals are the horseshoe bat, polecat, weasel, small-spotted genet, Andalusian horse, mufflon, monk seal, wild boar, badger, rabbit, Spanish red deer, Egyptian mongoose and Iberian lynx. |
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There enters into the case of the man an element of serious spiritual sympathy and responsibility that does not exist in the case of the dog or the horse, still less of the mongoose or the hyaena. |
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Termites are also an important component of the dwarf mongoose diet, but this effect of termitaries on mongoose distribution is likely to be secondary. |
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The fact is, however, that an ichneumon is just one kind of mongoose, the Egyptian mongoose, and while it is found throughout much of Africa, it is entirely absent from India. |
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To unsuspecting eyes these mongoose relatives can seem eminently pettable. |
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Alongside the family groups of 30 primates there will be otters, dwarf mongoose and monitor lizards plus a conservation collection of birds and insects. |
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