All mongooses are members of a family of small to medium-sized carnivores called the Viverridae, which also includes civets and genets. |
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On land penguins also have a number of enemies which include leopards, caraculs, kelp gulls and mongooses. |
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Dwarf mongooses mainly feed on insects like termites, locusts, beetles, grubs, larvae and spiders. |
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Inhabiting the park's many dense thickets are badgers, wildcats, foxes, beech martens, weasels and Egyptian mongooses. |
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Leopards, hyenas, jackals, sloth bears, cobras, pythons, mongooses and monitor lizards move silently through its forests. |
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The galliwasp is also killed by dogs, cats and mongooses, and by people who mistakenly consider it to be venomous. |
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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. |
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The pair compared data from studies covering 18 different species, including dwarf mongooses, meerkats, Florida scrub jays, western bluebirds, and Australian magpies. |
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Introduced predators such as rats, cats, dogs, foxes and mongooses are thought to have been responsible for about half of island bird extinctions. |
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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. |
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With no other carnivores around, mongooses and civets became Madagascar's predators, and the fossa filled the hunting niche usually occupied by cats. |
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The southern plains are home to mongooses, civets, hares, the Asiatic jackal, the Indian pangolin, the jungle cat, and the desert cat. |
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Animal life includes Arabian leopard, Arabian wolves, striped hyenas, mongooses, baboons, hares, sand cats, and jerboas. |
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The use of predators including ferrets, mongooses and monitor lizards has been found unsatisfactory. |
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Cowpox virus outbreak in banded mongooses and jaguarundis with a time-delayed infection to humans. |
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Other animals include the black giant squirrel, capped langur, Bengal fox, sambar deer, jungle cat, king cobra, wild boar, mongooses, pangolins, pythons and water monitors. |
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